Right back again.
So now we're going to talk about the collective intention of this, we talked about intentionality.
We talked about the network of intentional states.
We talked about the background, but it doesn't stop there, actually.
So there is a very important thing here called collective intentionality that emerges when we have intentional
states, intentional states about other people's intentional states, basically.
So what is collective intentionality?
So in coordination with others, we create the possibility of a collection intentionality.
And it's emerges as a result of multiple people like Scott declaring, for example, having intentional
states.
So Scott thinks that what he's looking at is, is money.
So this is money.
That's the propositional content in this intentional stage was his belief.
And Claire also have a belief about that.
This is money.
Right.
But those multiple people, also her mutal intentional beliefs about each other, intentional states.
So they do not only have this proposition, this intentional state with that propositional content,
they also actually have an intentional state about each other's intentional state.
So Scott has an intentional state that Claire believes that it's money and Claire also have an intentional
state, that Scott believes that this is money.
And then we start getting what is called collective intentionality because that would regulate how we
think about what other people think.
So then we get something that is called kind of the multiplier effect here.
So if you think about any type of system, it doesn't have to be an I.T. system, could be a business
as a system, could be a legal system or any type of system that will never exist outside our collective
intentionality.
So systems actually exist because we think they exist and they exist because I think that they exist.
And you think that they exist and I think that you think that they exist and so on.
So they exist in our collective intentionality.
So, for example, I think that this is a system, right?
And those people also think that this is a system, but that's not enough to form the collective intentionality.
I also think that you and you and you think that this is a system and other person thinks the same and
the third and fourth as well.
And then on top of that, this will be a recursion as well.
I, of course, think I think that you think that I think that this is a system and so on and so on
and so on.
So this phenomena is something called collective international that has been described by many people.
John Soros one, also Steven Pinker, who actually done an RSA.
You can look up on the Internet, on YouTube, YouTube about this, which is very powerful and very
good.
So look that up as well.
Also talking about the importance of collective intentionality in all types of areas in society.
But one very important one is that this is the way that we form any type of institutional facts.
And we'll come back to that later because it's very, very important.
So, for example, I think that this is money and you think that this is money and the third person
think that this is money and so on.
And I think that you think that this is money.
And he thinks that she thinks that that is money and so on.
It's just when we have those thoughts about other people's intentional states, then the money, the
phenomenal money actually arises.
There will be no money if we don't think this so we can create money internally in one room and define
that this is money within this context of this one room.
But if we stop things that then those money will not be will not have any value anymore.
So they only have value as money as long as we think about them as money.
And that's the extremely important power of collective intentionality.
And that's how we're building institutional facts.
We'll come back to that to that later on in the analysis.
Good.
That was the end of this lecture about collective intentionality.
So now we're actually going to do a wrap up of the whole first corner in the organ and Rich's triangle.
So come back to that and then we'll go into the next one, which is language.