Other-awareness
age 6-8, aka “Theory of Mind” | Rational thought
tween to early teens |
“Other people have thoughts and mental constructs that are also true!? It’s fascinating to wonder what theirs might be and orient to making ours respond to each other no matter my prior expectations about the context.” | “I have come to understand that I’m not in charge of others’ thoughts, only my own. I can see mistakes and am interested to avoid these, as well as aim for certain outcomes. It makes sense now to use my other-awareness to apply assumptions about what others will do so I can effectively apply my thoughts (counterfactually) and thereby gain a measure of control over outcomes.” |
New representational techniques are grasped: masking and shielding others’ masks of us | New representational techniques are grasped: Control-conform dynamics and shielding others’ control-conform of us |
Otherwiseness (to deal with ambiguity among others) occurs when natural System-Self of young childhood is replaced with exploring the interplay of Self-In-Tension to System-Ex-Tension | Otherwiseness (to deal with ambiguity and the need for prediction) is from natural context-sensitivity for self-direction to Truth-seeking self-direction |