collecting some thoughts on socially-embodied cognition here
which is, the phenomenon wherein a significant portion of an individual's process of cognition extends outside of their self & into the interactions with their social neighbors, mediated through iterated interactions
consciousness arose out of these iterated social interactions, as we learned to model our own selves by simulating interactions with others; this is where the Minsky "society of mind" originates
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socially-embodied cognition requires us to make a communication in order to introspect
in fact, consciousness arise for the sole reason of enabling us to make these communications https://twitter.com/sadalsvvd/status/1322025…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1322038965009031168
social cognition as an emergent phenomenon, dependent on specialization of individuals
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16. for better or worse, this is because for most people, thinking is an inherently social process; their cognition is socially-embodied, they are not self-contained, & on their own, they do not comprise a fully conscious being; like ants or bees, the organism is the colony
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1339030561730555907
explicit logical reasoning fundamentally is in conflict with social cognition, which tends to function in the intuitive mode
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many people do not like when you demonstrate flaws in their logic by applying it to situations besides the specific one they had in mind
to them, this feels disingenuous/irrelevant, as they do not aim for a logically consistent worldview, but rather enacting their moral agenda https://twitter.…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1341162247243100160
some have difficulty understanding human behavior because they model it as individuals arriving at conclusions independently, which is very rarely what actually happens
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@mutual_ayyde @chaosprime it's a useful technique but it's oftentimes failed for me for the same reason Homo Economicus fails: socially-embodied cognition. slowly coming around to the idea that majority of people legitimately are not discrete individu…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1324588277865865217
independent thinking is often seen as dangerous, as it runs the risk of separating you from the hivemind and isolating you; first-principles reasoning can be a dangerous meme, for this reason
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vast majority of humanity has never reasoned from first principles, and that's okay! it's simply not adaptive for the average person to do so. at best, you can obtain surplus resources, but at worst, it's a cognitohazard which i…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1314680420777287683
certain people, who have difficulty connecting with others, or consciously resist it, are particularly likely to adopt more structured and formal methods of reasoning, as they enable a full cognitive loop to be embodied within a single mind; this can exacerbate conflicts
on the importance of open information flows and good epistemics for the proper operation of social cognition
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while the MSM could stand to be a bit more conservative with headlines the real issue is the masses handing over epistemic authority; socially-embodied cognition requires as input a strong signal of "what others believe", and an oligarchy controlling this is a point of failure https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/s…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1325342777153032192
humans wouldn't be human without social cognition; they become something else when all reasoning is sequestered within the confines of a single brain
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@ne0agent1c socially-embodied cognition is an inextricable part of human consciousness and one cannot understand the latter without the former
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1339031022646784000