# Collective cognition, culture, mind share and patterns of action

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-11-04-collective-cognition-culture-mind-share-and-patterns-of-action

The piece argues that reducing collective concepts such as culture and popularity to individual minds removes an essential level of description.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 November 2007

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/04/collective-cognition-culture-mind-share-and-patterns-of-action/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 4 November 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: cognition, culture, social-science, social-networks.

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