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Volume II · Lecture 28

The Social Geometry of the Mind

How other people alter the states we can enter, sustain and leave

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The human problem

Trust, rejection, visibility, status, attachment, co-regulation and belonging are treated as forces inside the mental landscape rather than social decoration around it.

Core sentence

A relationship can change the vector field because the relationship is part of the field.

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What this adds

The new move

It makes the social field biologically and dynamically central to suffering and recovery.

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Publication briefing

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Social state-space

A person moves through states partly by predicting how others will respond, what roles are permitted and whether contact is safe.

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Practical translation

For reflection and conversation

Three moves that return the idea to the field.

  1. Map who makes honesty safer and who makes secrecy easier.
  2. Notice roles that widen or compress the person.
  3. Build support without turning it into surveillance.

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One mind, many relational forces

Other people can increase threat, lend regulation, authorize new identities or keep old ones fixed.

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The Social Geometry of the Mind

A relationship can change the vector field because the relationship is part of the field.
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  1. Clark, A. (2013).Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science.Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(3), 181–204.DOI ↗
  2. Coan, J. A. & Sbarra, D. A. (2015).Social Baseline Theory: The social regulation of risk and effort.Current Opinion in Psychology, 1, 87–91.DOI ↗
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