ABSTRACT
This chapter is about thinking in individual humans and thinking in societies, and how the interact. One might agree that most people are not as clever as they would like to think, if only because they do not agree with oneself on matters of politics; religion; city planning; or taste in alcohol, music, dogs, or football. Some may object that social thinking has little to do with artificial intelligence (AI), and they would be correct, in that what we are looking to recreate in AI is an individual thinking machine, similar to an individual thinking human. Science claims to know some things through experimental observation and mathematics. So science gives better approximations of what is going on, but no hard and fast, permanent knowledge. Moreover, science is no solution to personal anxiety, since it tells nothing about our lives or about subjectivity.
