Common sense
How Common Knowledge Shapes the World | Steven Pinker | TED
youtube.comcommon knowledge - logic of human harmony
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coordination - the organization of the different elements to enable them to work together effectively.
conspicuous salience (focal point) - something that stands out in a way that is highly visible and obvious to others.
convention - to do something in a certain way
cycles of exuberant recursive mentalizing = an intense, self-perpetuating pattern of thinking about what others are thinking and what they are thinking about, and so on, often leading to complex social phenomena like the bystander effect.
relationship is a coordination game
repress common knowledge (ignorance, denial) - unveiling intention to others (roleplaying, white lies)
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