🧩 Philosophy 14h ago · johnswentworth

Free-Floating Social Patterns

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Free-Floating Social Patterns
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RoadmapThis post is part of a sequence on the gears of social reality. Roughly speaking, I want to explain the core mechanics of social reality in way that's fully grounded in physical stuff and patterns in the physical world.A core claim of this sequence's model is that the main "objects" of social reality are free-floating concepts and associations. For example: the association between red roses and romantic dates. These associations are real patterns: the same associations appear in many huma

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