Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski, a Polish-American independent scholar who produced a field called general semantics, he viewed it as both distinct from and more encompassing than, the area of semantics. He argued that human understanding of the world is restricted both by the human nervous system and the languages people have developed, and consequently, no one can have direct access to reality, granted that the most we can know, is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to fact. His best-known dictum is "The map is not the territory." He was educated at the Warsaw University of Technology in engineering. During WWI Korzybski worked as an intelligence officer in the Russian Army. After a wound in a leg and other injuries moved to North America in 1916 (to Canada, later to the United States) to organize the shipment of artillery to Russia. Korzybski also lectured to Polish-American audiences about the war, promoting the sale of war bonds. After the conflict, he decided to stay in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen. Korzybski met Mira Edgerly, a painter of portraits on ivory, and married her. They remained married until his death. In his first title, Manhood of Humanity, he proposed and explained in detail his new theory: humans do time binding by the transmission of knowledge and concepts through time that are accreted in cultures.