A society has no brain, so it can change its shared model only one member at a time, and every partial update costs it coherence. Groups therefore trade staying true to the world against staying in sync with each other. A shared public record that can be corrected in one place eases the trade: members sync to an update instead of each having to make it.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSource document

  a whole society can't change its mind the way a biological creature can. It might behave as if it were a social organism, but it doesn't have a brain. It exists only as a web of symbolic interactions among its members. It's those individuals who have to do the changing. And rarely can many minds change at once because telepathy doesn't exist.

• backsSource document

  In a social constellation, just as in the human brain, the center is not in any one place nor in some single human figure, but in the coherence of the whole

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