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so many adults never get beyond kid-level of Theory of Mind (other people know different things than me) ...to more advanced stages like: - other people think different things than me - no actually other people ACTUALLY think those things
...and that's just the tip of the intersubjective iceberg! Read about Dream Mashups for a deep look at projection & perception. as blog post: https://t.co/8qP6Aq1FOj as twitter thread: https://t.co/95xa8E6XtE
Everyone's basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & their old emotional meanings. Like dreaming you're at high school but it's also on a boat somehow. & as in dreams, somehow the weirdness of this mashup goes unnoticed https://t.co/8qP6ApK4pJ
what motivations, or what information but "someone like me" https://t.co/KHnGaeQiX2
the default theory of mind is, implicitly, "what motivations would cause someone like me to say and do what i think i'm seeing and hearing" much confusion is caused by failures to appreciate both differences of personality & culture, and the significance of omitted context