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It's dimensionality reduction. You cannot recover the original object.

Makes me think of the Simulacrum[1]. "The map is not the territory."[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation



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