One reason humans are slow to unite against a virus is that their first instinct is to look not for cause but for blame.
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Ok, let’s be precise, in order to remove the linguistic wiggle room: Blame and cause are cross-scale homomorphic pointers, both members of the causality category, in which the subcategory “blame” binds only to entities perceived as agentic. It’s thus baked into agentic ToM.
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In other words, the synonymous nature of the homomorphism has nothing to do with the ascription of ToM. That only influences the bucket into which people tend to place a given observation.
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