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Folk psychology quotation:

Folk psychology (also known as common sense psychology, naïve psychology or vernacular psychology) is a set of assumptions, constructs, and convictions about everyday behaviors of ourselves and others. By linking individuals’ actions to perceived mental states predictions of conduct are able to be assumed. Folk psychology implicitly embraces everyday concepts like “beliefs”, desires”, “fear”, and “hope”.

The propositional attitudes of folk psychology are to bridge the gap between internal states and actions.

Am thinking it would be interesting to a folklorist-driven (mythology, anthropology, sociology) type of investigation into “what people actually think” about how computers and software work. To document the emotional relationships people have with their computers - maybe through some kind of photostudy. Hardware snapshots. People and their magic machines.

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