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From using words to overthrowing regimes, shared awareness is necessary for people to coordinate. The cognitive scientist explains to Nature how it works. When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: ...

We laugh at the same jokes (usually for the same reasons), blush at innuendo, bow to dictators (at least temporarily), all because of a sense of implicit understanding: ie, common knowledge. We ...

Source: Scribner / Used with permission. In a New Yorker cartoon about marital relations, a husband tells his wife, “Of course I care about how you imagined I thought you perceived I wanted you to ...