I think I probably assume a greater power in certain cultural memes in shaping perception at every level than almost anyone I’ve met. All insight breaks down to pattern-matching & if the constraints are mediated by culture to the extent I think they are, heterogeneity is crucial
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I expect there’s a feedback loop between culture & typical experiences that constrains the kinds of thinking that are (in a very real sense) possible at all. One way to look at “tribe”/shared reality/social cohesion is as an emergent property of people who *cannot* deviate much
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Yet people are also extremely, unfathomably diverse. Each one is a world.
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I don’t think these claims imply each other, & I find the second one way more obvious than the first
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E.g. it's common for people who know each other well to surprise/disappoint each other: "didn't know he had it in him!" or "how could he?!"
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But unpredictability, complexity & diversity don’t seem like quite the same thing? People frequently surprise themselves, in part because they’re capable of change, but also probably in part because they model even themselves at a lower resolution than that of reality
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FWIW I think human mental life almost certainly more diverse than ever before, certainly more so than when you mostly had small isolated groups focusing on rote survival tasks with only oral tradition to preserve ideas. Whatever the current state, diversity can improve
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