I think the post imagines something like a multi person stack trace. In reality backwards facing introspection winds up confabulating, and there’s not limit to how many epicycles can be added with multiple parties confabulating.
Hmm. It seems like a pretty strong claim to me that the backwards facing stack-trace is purely confabulatory, or is so confabulatory that it’s not useful to understand.
I do agree confabulation can happen (moreover, I agree that confabulation is happening all the time). But my current sense is that the confabulation is… happening in a fashion that is entangled enough with reality that it usually collapses into something real-enough to be worth talking about (both in multi-person relationships and other domains).
I do find it somewhat plausible that the overall approach and stance in this article isn’t the based way to handle social conflict, but that doesn’t seem to be because the content is false, so much as it’s an unhelpful frame. (I’m currently somewhat agnostic on how helpful the frame is, and think it varies depending on the situation)
I think the post imagines something like a multi person stack trace. In reality backwards facing introspection winds up confabulating, and there’s not limit to how many epicycles can be added with multiple parties confabulating.
Hmm. It seems like a pretty strong claim to me that the backwards facing stack-trace is purely confabulatory, or is so confabulatory that it’s not useful to understand.
I do agree confabulation can happen (moreover, I agree that confabulation is happening all the time). But my current sense is that the confabulation is… happening in a fashion that is entangled enough with reality that it usually collapses into something real-enough to be worth talking about (both in multi-person relationships and other domains).
I do find it somewhat plausible that the overall approach and stance in this article isn’t the based way to handle social conflict, but that doesn’t seem to be because the content is false, so much as it’s an unhelpful frame. (I’m currently somewhat agnostic on how helpful the frame is, and think it varies depending on the situation)