This conflict appears to be difficult to solve as long as no specific and feasible proposal regarding the necessary strength of collective recognition exists.
If, for example, one tries to use some piece of paper as money, even in a context of trading, there could be a lack of collective recognition that this specific piece of paper counts as money, rendering it virtually useless in this context.
So this is not just a test of industrial processes and bargaining in the gig or online economy it's also, I think probably, the first test in any part of the economy of the new laws on collective recognition.
The NYC Lean In Circle grew organically out of a collective recognition that we're more likely to get where we're headed if we go together.
Now, one may ask who can create a social entity by means of a declaration, and whose collective recognition of the validity of this declaration is necessary.
This question targets not only the PIA in question but Searle's whole account of social entities, because it prevents a clear response to the question of how strong the collective recognition of a declaration has to be.
The FCC had set the stage, the llamas had drawn us together and transported us beyond the mundane, and now the Random Dress Whose Color Could Not Be Definitively Stated was sparking a collective recognition of the limits of perception, the instability of reality -- the thin filament between us and the Sublime -- and the surprising extent to which dress colors can change depending on the light.
While the assignment of a status function and the collective recognition of the entity's existence are necessary for interpreting it as a social entity at all, it also needs to exhibit collective rationality with regard to the formation of its beliefs and desires or, in short, attitudes.
This implies that in some cases, a declaration is insufficient for an X to count as a Y in a context C, namely, when collective recognition of the validity of this declaration is absent.
It's the collective recognition of our own marred physicality, the acceptance of our shared imperfection, our mortality too horrible to face head-on.
All of the wild, beautifully goofy llamas in the world couldn't draw a billion people together into a collective recognition of the Sublime with an internet built on lanes of varying speed tied to service fees.
