Shared Intentionality and the Cooperative Evolutionary Hypothesis

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenda Satne ◽  
Alessandro Salice
Keyword(s):  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Evolutionary Hypothesis

How is the moral stance related to the intentional stance and group thinking?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannes Rakoczy
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group Thinking ◽  
Moral Stance

Abstract The natural history of our moral stance told here in this commentary reveals the close nexus of morality and basic social-cognitive capacities. Big mysteries about morality thus transform into smaller and more manageable ones. Here, I raise questions regarding the conceptual, ontogenetic, and evolutionary relations of the moral stance to the intentional and group stances and to shared intentionality.

Shared Intentionality, joint commitment, and directed obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Account ◽  
Joint Commitment ◽  
Shared Intentionality

Abstract Tomasello frequently refers to joint commitment, but does not fully characterize it. In earlier publications, I have offered a detailed account of joint commitment, tying it to a sense that the parties form a “we,” and arguing that it grounds directed obligations and rights. Here I outline my understanding of joint commitment and its normative impact.

scholarly journals Using dual-EEG to explore therapistclient interpersonal neural synchrony

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Lecchi ◽  
Ksenija da Silva ◽  
Fabio Giommi ◽  
Victoria Leong
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Alliance ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Mindfulness Practice ◽  
Neural Synchrony ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Mutual Engagement

The therapeutic alliance represents an important variable in explaining the outcome of mental health treatment. In particular, research suggests that mindfulness practice might help therapists to develop skills that are key to a good therapeutic alliance. Although the therapeutic alliance is well-recognised from a clinical perspective, basic quantitative research is still lacking about the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in establishing and maintaining the alliance between individuals. Recent advances in two-person neuroscience research have demonstrated that interpersonal neural synchrony -which may develop between speaker and listener, or parent and child -is a strong predictor of mutual understanding as well as social learning and influence. Further, social cues that improve communication quality and clarify intent effectively modulate levels of interpersonal neural synchrony, suggesting that this neural index is sensitive to dynamic changes in speaker-listener engagement. Given that the therapeutic alliance depends strongly on shared intentionality and mutual engagement between therapist and client, interpersonal neural synchrony may also index the quality and strength of the therapist-client alliance, and predict treatment outcome. If so, this quantitative neural index could provide a useful clinical tool for measuring and understanding the nature and efficacy of the therapeutic alliance. The present paper discusses these hypotheses, presenting preliminary data from a pilot study investigating neural synchrony between clients and therapists in face-to-face and videoconference interactions, comparing therapists who practice mindfulness with therapists without any mindfulness experience.

scholarly journals Communicating Without Conventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-27
Author(s):  
Michael Tomasello
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Psychological Point

For obvious and very good reasons the study of human communication is dominated by the study of language. But from a psychological point of view, the basic structure of human communication – how it works pragmatically in terms of the intentions and inferences involved - is totally independent of language. The most important data here are acts of human communication that do not employ conventions. In situations in which language is for some reason not an option, people often produce spontaneous, non-conventionalized gestures, including most prominently pointing (deictic gestures) and pantomiming (iconic gestures). These gestures are universal among humans and unique to the species, and in human evolution they almost certainly preceded conventional communication, either signed or vocal. For prelinguistic infants to communicate effectively via pointing and pantomiming, they must already possess species-unique and very powerful skills and motivations for shared intentionality as pragmatic infrastructure. Conventional communication is then built on top of this infrastructure - or so I will argue.

scholarly journals Students' Use of Languaging in Rewriting Events from The Things They Carried

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Beach
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
The Novel ◽  
School Students ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Social Actions

This article describes high school students’ responses to events in the novel, The Things They Carried, leading to their collaborative rewriting to create their own narrative versions of these events. It draws on “enactivist” theory of languaging, an approach to language that focuses on its use as social actions to enact and build relationships with others (Cowley, 2011; Linell, 2009). The focus is on “in-between” meanings constituted by “shared intentionality” (Di Paolo & De Jaegher, 2012) in readers’ transactions with authors’ portrayals of events in texts as well as in responding to uses of languaging in characters’ interactions. Analysis of four students’ rewriting events from the novel indicated that they drew on their responses to the novel to portray tensions in their characters’ interactions as well as their own experiences of coping with these tensions. Students also benefitted from collaboratively creating their narratives through sharing their different perspectives on events in the texts, suggesting the value of using collaborative rewriting activities to enhance students’ literary responses and awareness of how languaging functions to enact relationships.

scholarly journals Neuronal Coherence Agent for Shared Intentionality: A Hypothesis of Neurobiological Processes Occurring during Social Interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Igor Val Danilov ◽  
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Sandra Mihailova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Long Term Potentiation ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Entire Group ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Neuronal Coherence

The present interdisciplinary study discusses the physical foundations of the neurobiological processes occurring during social interaction. The review of the literature establishes the difference between Intentionality and Intention, thereby proposing the theoretical basis of Shared Intentionality in humans. According to the present study, Shared Intentionality in humans (Goal-directed coherence of biological systems), which is the ability among social organisms to instantly select just one stimulus for the entire group, is the outcome of evolutionary development. Therefore, this interaction modality should be the preferred, archetypal, and most propagated modality in organisms, attributed to the Model of Hierarchical Complexity Stage 3. This characteristic of biological systems facilitates the training of the new members of the group and also ensures efficient cooperation among the members of the group without requiring communication. In humans, Shared Intentionality contributes to the learning of newborns. The neurons of a mature organism may teach the neonate neurons regarding the fitting reactions to the excitatory inputs of the specific structural organization. This enables the neonate neurons to develop a Long-Term Potentiation that links particular stimuli with specific embodied sensorimotor neural networks. The present report discusses three possible neuronal coherence agents that could involve quantum mechanisms in cells, thereby enabling the distribution of the quality of goal-directed coherence in biological systems (Shared Intentionality in humans). Recently reported case studies conducted online with the task of conveying the meaning of numerosity to the children of age 18–33 months revealed the occurrence of Shared Intentionality in mother-child dyads in the absence of sensory cues between the two, which promoted cognitive development in the children. The findings of these case studies support the concept of physical foundations and the hypothesis of the neurophysiological process of social interaction proposed in the present study.

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