Ah, gotcha. Doesn't the Socratic fallacy still apply though? I can have a conversation with a 5 year old about cows, no problem, but ask them to define a cow and they will struggle to give an exhaustive definition.
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I understand. I meant, how is it possible that two people understand each other / communicate while not have same representations? I mean to ask philosophically.
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My question is also mainly philosophical at some point and mostly driven by some personal experiences. Something I have started paying attention to recently. Specifically, I found myself having relatively satisfactory and straightforward conversations with people when I don’t >>
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question their assumptions or point of view, and just assume we’re talking about the same thing. The communication tends to immediately break down, however, when I start questioning the way they define terms or what assumptions they make. Which is confusing because a second >>
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ago I was operating under the illusion of perfect communication and now it’s gone forever. So was I deceived myself when I thought we did communicate? The more I asked the more I found that people can disagree on most basic things. But aren’t always conscious of it.
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I just find these experiences baffling with regard to what communication really is. What resolution is required and at what level it’s too fine? What’s function does noise serve? etc.
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Ugh sorry about all the typos. I trust you to read the correct word :D
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I think I did ;)
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:) I knew it!
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Test your theory with the help of Alan Baddeley and colleagues: https://www.york.ac.uk/res/doors/search.shtml … (probably includes some Cypriot ones)
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That's amusing! They actually use doors!
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Alan B. (whose office is next door to mine) is genuinely obsessed with doors and with how they are represented in visual memory. He took all the photos.
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They are good stimuli as you can find visually similar and different exemplars but they are not easy to encode verbally. So you have to rely on visual memory.
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