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#422 Michael Tomasello: Interdependence, Shared Intentionality, Culture, and Morality

The Dissenter

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Share Intentionality, Part 2: Mammals and Agency

Human beings have created a new kind of agency, that it's a social or a shared agency. And then when you scale it up to culture, you've got an entire cultural group that makes decisions together. So there's a wi shared intentionally, sometimes called we intentionality. You know, everything, all the things that if you ask a person on the street ... i would say almost every single one of them would be something that no individual could do on its own"

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