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I think this is a silly take. Not all species had evolutionary pressure for cross-organism understanding. A different species that has selective pressure for
by mlyle 1y ago
I think this is a silly take. Not all species had evolutionary pressure for cross-organism understanding. A different species that has selective pressure for social understanding and greater mental understanding is probably going to understand what an insect wants better than say, another insect.
That is, how well you can understand someone else doesn't depend just on common ground, but perhaps even more on how mature of machinery for understanding that you have.
- AdieuToLogic 1y ago> That is, how well you can understand someone else doesn't depend just on common ground, but perhaps even more on how mature of machinery for understanding that you have. I disagree, and believe I can explain why. If I wrote: I can think of a few HN posts I have written which did not properly express my intent when I wrote them. Is this a statement that you can relate with? Even if not, does it communicate an experience you could envision based on your being a participant in this forum, having written posts yourself, and knowing I am a person just as you are doing the same? What if I texted the sentence to someone who has never heard of HN? Now what would happen if I wrote that same sentence on a piece of paper and handed it to a random person in a train station where no one spoke English?