Curated. I think the underlying concept here is valuable and if we can develop a good ability to notice and reflect on instances of it, this could both improve our collective epistemics and coordination. Kudos to Anna and everyone in the comments who are trying to flesh out the models.
I do think the concept is much the same as performative utterance and there might be some useful stuff in the literature on that, though mostly I don’t care about the exact term used so long as we’ve got some shared handle for the concept. “Narrative syncing” does feel more likely to catch on in our community, maybe, so I’m happy to broadcast it.
As follow-up work, I would love to see someone (or multiple someones) collecting and fleshing out examples of the phenomenon. Or perhaps the best is for people to report their own concrete experiences. I might point to my wedding as a case where my wife and I synced the narrative about our relationship in a way that persists eight years later.
FYI the concept seems fairly distinct to me from performative utterances – performative utterances include things that are not syncing narratives (“go to the store”), and I think narrative syncing is an act that requires two people to do (performative utterance is a thing one person says, which might or might not be part of a narrative sync).
(But, agreed the two concepts are certainly related, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s useful literature there)
I could easily imagine a version of the command form that is nearer to narrative synching “You are going to the store” which is not a command but gets to the same end goal.
Curated. I think the underlying concept here is valuable and if we can develop a good ability to notice and reflect on instances of it, this could both improve our collective epistemics and coordination. Kudos to Anna and everyone in the comments who are trying to flesh out the models.
I do think the concept is much the same as performative utterance and there might be some useful stuff in the literature on that, though mostly I don’t care about the exact term used so long as we’ve got some shared handle for the concept. “Narrative syncing” does feel more likely to catch on in our community, maybe, so I’m happy to broadcast it.
As follow-up work, I would love to see someone (or multiple someones) collecting and fleshing out examples of the phenomenon. Or perhaps the best is for people to report their own concrete experiences. I might point to my wedding as a case where my wife and I synced the narrative about our relationship in a way that persists eight years later.
FYI the concept seems fairly distinct to me from performative utterances – performative utterances include things that are not syncing narratives (“go to the store”), and I think narrative syncing is an act that requires two people to do (performative utterance is a thing one person says, which might or might not be part of a narrative sync).
(But, agreed the two concepts are certainly related, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s useful literature there)
I could easily imagine a version of the command form that is nearer to narrative synching “You are going to the store” which is not a command but gets to the same end goal.