But none of that is established in the literature they're drawing from when they say that certain n-grams are associated with cognitive distortions related to depression. When they say 'cognitive distortion', they're very specifically talking about depression in the psychological sense, not the economic sense, or the cultural sense. That's why they'd have to establish that whole societies functioned like individuals — not in a poetic sense, but in a literal sense. Very hard to do that, and nobody has to my knowledge. This is the kind of thing you could say in an opinion piece, but not a research paper.
> That's why they'd have to establish that whole societies functioned
like individuals — not in a poetic sense, but in a literal
sense. Very hard to do that, and nobody has to my knowledge.
Indeed. I'm (hopefully) clearly extending the interpretation well
beyond the scope of that paper, which I took on face value to be
unsatisfactory. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "establish" but
the analog of "society of mind" (not just Minsky's take) as emergent
of faculties at both neurological and human organisational levels is
old and appears in many forms throughout philosophy and political
theory. "Poetry" would be the highest complement, but alas I am too
clumsy with words for that.
