This means we can not only engage in this kind of coordination behavior without understanding the mechanism, we have generalized the coordination mechanism to apply across domains such that no deeper understanding is needed, i.e. you don’t even need to notice that the strategy works, only have adopted a norm that you’re already applying in multiple domains that allows you to coordinate without realizing it.
As a society, we’ve actually codified some of these ideas in advice idioms like “fake it till you make it”. We’ve also codified the equal and opposite advice, e.g. “you can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”.
This means we can not only engage in this kind of coordination behavior without understanding the mechanism, we have generalized the coordination mechanism to apply across domains such that no deeper understanding is needed, i.e. you don’t even need to notice that the strategy works, only have adopted a norm that you’re already applying in multiple domains that allows you to coordinate without realizing it.
Are those opposites? It seems to me that the latter adage just specifies the limit where eventually, you have to make it, or you’ll be caught out.