Is there anything in the world that functions to represent objects in the environment exactly as they truly are?

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No, because no matter what it is, it will be an extension of the sensorium, which is riddled with inaccuracies. In other words, no matter how perfect the snapshot, someone still has to look at it, or read the data from the machine that analyzed it.

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