I don’t think social interaction is fully system one—there’s a lot of political games and navigating relationships that are under the domain of system 2. But the act of socializing, in the moment, I see as largely system 1 driven.
A lot of this comes from a place where I didn’t understand social interactions at all… As I came to be able to interact more normally, one of the key things I learned is that in most cases of social interaction, the interaction is not about a logical exchange of information or ideas—it’s taking place on an emotional level.
System 1 is built for social interaction. It helps us with the tiny subcommunications that reveal things about our emotions and status, and it’s built to read other’s subcommunications that communicate the same things, and give us feelings about other people based on those subcommunications.
One of the reasons that people have “aspy” behavior is either that this part of their system 1 is not very powerful—they have trouble empathizing, reading those social cues, etc. AND/OR, they simply dislike that form of communication—they have an aesthetic preference for logical, factual conversations, instead of the empathy based emotional exchange that most “normal” interactions hinge on.
I don’t think social interaction is fully system one—there’s a lot of political games and navigating relationships that are under the domain of system 2. But the act of socializing, in the moment, I see as largely system 1 driven.
A lot of this comes from a place where I didn’t understand social interactions at all… As I came to be able to interact more normally, one of the key things I learned is that in most cases of social interaction, the interaction is not about a logical exchange of information or ideas—it’s taking place on an emotional level.
System 1 is built for social interaction. It helps us with the tiny subcommunications that reveal things about our emotions and status, and it’s built to read other’s subcommunications that communicate the same things, and give us feelings about other people based on those subcommunications.
One of the reasons that people have “aspy” behavior is either that this part of their system 1 is not very powerful—they have trouble empathizing, reading those social cues, etc. AND/OR, they simply dislike that form of communication—they have an aesthetic preference for logical, factual conversations, instead of the empathy based emotional exchange that most “normal” interactions hinge on.