Often those people are innocent. The blinking-innocently isn’t a pretense. But it’s grounded in naïveté.
Or in neurodivergence. It seems to me that certain mind architectures just really struggle with these dynamics, and reliably delving even one layer deep, never mind multiple, is far beyond their abilities. If so, it would make sense to me that there should be some cultural spaces where this limitation is accommodated. Whether any particular space needs to be that is another question, but one that should be explicitly addressed.
I wonder if its less a matter of neurodivergent brains being literally unable to do this kind of reasoning, but more a difficulty of being able to notice patterns in reactions and behavior to build a useful enough predictive model of people at all.
Or in neurodivergence. It seems to me that certain mind architectures just really struggle with these dynamics, and reliably delving even one layer deep, never mind multiple, is far beyond their abilities. If so, it would make sense to me that there should be some cultural spaces where this limitation is accommodated. Whether any particular space needs to be that is another question, but one that should be explicitly addressed.
I wonder if its less a matter of neurodivergent brains being literally unable to do this kind of reasoning, but more a difficulty of being able to notice patterns in reactions and behavior to build a useful enough predictive model of people at all.