I could use more clarity on what is and isn’t level three.
Supposedly at level three, saying “There’s a lion across the river” means “I’m with the popular kids who are too cool to go across the river.” But there’s more than one kind of motivation the speaker might have.
A) A felt sense that “There’s a lion across the river” would be a good thing to say (based on subconscious desire to affiliate with the cool kids, and having heard the cool kids say this)
B) A conscious calculation that saying this will ingratiate you with the cool kids, based on explicit reasoning about other things the cool kids have said, but motivated by a felt sense that those kids are cool and you want to join them
C) A conscious calculation that saying this will ingratiate you with the cool kids, motivated by a conscious calculation that gaining status among the cool kids will yield tangible benefits.
Are all three of these contained by level three? Or does an element of conscious calculation take us into level four?
(I think C) has a tendency to turn into B) and B) likewise into A), but I don’t think it’s inevitable)
I could use more clarity on what is and isn’t level three.
Supposedly at level three, saying “There’s a lion across the river” means “I’m with the popular kids who are too cool to go across the river.” But there’s more than one kind of motivation the speaker might have.
A) A felt sense that “There’s a lion across the river” would be a good thing to say (based on subconscious desire to affiliate with the cool kids, and having heard the cool kids say this)
B) A conscious calculation that saying this will ingratiate you with the cool kids, based on explicit reasoning about other things the cool kids have said, but motivated by a felt sense that those kids are cool and you want to join them
C) A conscious calculation that saying this will ingratiate you with the cool kids, motivated by a conscious calculation that gaining status among the cool kids will yield tangible benefits.
Are all three of these contained by level three? Or does an element of conscious calculation take us into level four?
(I think C) has a tendency to turn into B) and B) likewise into A), but I don’t think it’s inevitable)