Tangentially: The thing about belief systems that I think is pathologically under-emphasized is that you can agree completely within a context but disagree w.r.t. the relative salience of a context and the latter matters way more, perceptually.https://twitter.com/NelsonMRosario/status/1130200492842323969 …
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So does this mean our expressed opinions are proxies for our mental models and that even if they align with expressed opinions of others that doesn’t necessarily mean the mental models align?
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I believe it does, yes. Except that I also believe that aligned expressions tend to induce contagious alignments, just in heterogeneous ways. E.g. if we agree, I may just perceive an identity we share and strengthen my belief in that.
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We're prone to pretending we do (and with a lot of effort we can come close) but really we perceive way more relational structure in particular "isolated" expressions than we're aware of.
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It's the relationships that drive the evolution of beliefs, not isolated expressions. But we focus on the latter because their observable. (This is why I thought Database Animals was so similar to my work.)
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