I have a hunch that in practice the use of the term ‘shared reality’ doesn’t actually ruin one’s ability to refer to territory-reality. In the instances when I’ve used the term in conversation I haven’t noticed this (and I like to refer to the territory a lot). But maybe with more widespread usage and misinterpretation it could start to be a problem?
I think to get a better sense of your concern it might be useful to dive into specific conversations/dynamics where this might go wrong.
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I can imagine a world where I want to be able to point out that someone is doing the psychological mistake of confusing their desire to connect with their map-making. And I want the term I use to do that work, so I can just say “you want to share your subjective experience with me, but I’m disagreeing with you about reality, not subjective experience.”
Yeah I definitely don’t think calling it “shared reality” will ruin anything. It would be another few snowflakes in the avalanche of territory-map ambiguation, similar to when people use “true” to mean “good” rather than “factually accurate”.
I’ve made a couple of attempts at a longer response and just keep bouncing off, so I think I’m out of concepts for now. Would love to pick this up in person if we run into each other.
Sure! I love talking about this concept-cluster.
I have a hunch that in practice the use of the term ‘shared reality’ doesn’t actually ruin one’s ability to refer to territory-reality. In the instances when I’ve used the term in conversation I haven’t noticed this (and I like to refer to the territory a lot). But maybe with more widespread usage and misinterpretation it could start to be a problem?
I think to get a better sense of your concern it might be useful to dive into specific conversations/dynamics where this might go wrong.
...
I can imagine a world where I want to be able to point out that someone is doing the psychological mistake of confusing their desire to connect with their map-making. And I want the term I use to do that work, so I can just say “you want to share your subjective experience with me, but I’m disagreeing with you about reality, not subjective experience.”
Does that kind of resonate with your concern?
Yeah I definitely don’t think calling it “shared reality” will ruin anything. It would be another few snowflakes in the avalanche of territory-map ambiguation, similar to when people use “true” to mean “good” rather than “factually accurate”.
I’ve made a couple of attempts at a longer response and just keep bouncing off, so I think I’m out of concepts for now. Would love to pick this up in person if we run into each other.
Yeah let’s do in-person sometime, I also tried drafting long responses and they were terrible