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engphilosopher t1_j4vzrp6 wrote

The intersubjectivity collapse is a breakdown of social and cultural norms in civilization due to the proliferation of minds of varying levels of complexity or sophistication.

This can lead to unpredictability among agents, as the introduction of vastly new minds can disrupt the unspoken rules that hold civilization together based on the subjectivity of the minds that have created it. This collapse can be a merger of subjectivities, a breakdown of trust, or a dissolution of a shared reality.

In traumatic status subordination, intersubjective parity – the counterfactual presupposition of being treated as an equal human being – is so violently betrayed that a collapse of the intersubjective structure of identity can result. This can manifest in impaired intersubjectivity, which displays underlying problems of deficient relational benevolence, misattributing agency, and a failure of the imagination.

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