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204 - John Vervaeke - Collective Intelligence: Angels in Scientific Terms

The Symbolic World

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Athena Is Not Just This, but She Is a Generalized Other, Right?

An athena is a way of so george herbert mead had this idea of the generalized other, right? So that that thing the little girl just did with the adult, imagine trying to do that on a baseball team. That's very, very hard,. Because you're constantly shifting who your and so mead argued that we e create what he called the generalized other. We create kind of this model that is somehow the intersection of all these individual models. And by relating to that, i can effectively co ordinate with all these other people, and they with me, a generalized others.

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