- The concept of "recruitment". The body recruits muscles to integrate them into motions, the brain recruits networks to execute cognitive tasks, humans recruit

- The concept of "recruitment". The body recruits muscles to integrate them into motions, the brain recruits networks to execute cognitive tasks, humans recruit stereotypes and concepts from shared awareness to back their words up. - Evolution and gradient descent. Systems, including humans and society, evolve to maximize the value functions acting upon them. Whether that's income or getting along with others. - All linguistically-based mental models are just approximations, and there's countless valid ones. Optimize yourself to use the ones that are the most flexible, and benefit you the most. When you rephrase another person's words, you're setting up the stage for offering them an alternative model in your next sentences. - Socialization is a scaffold for the self, and closeness is the inclusion of others into our self-concept. You can't fix yourself alone, and the wrong people can easily break you. - Awareness of something is enough to incorporate it into your information processing. This goes for both metaknowledge and for psychosocial dynamics.