The degree of world complexity one comprehends depends on intersubjective constitution

Evidence

The manner in which experience is constituted through meaning and world so as to make the complex conditions of existence comprehensible is an intersubjective achievement. A transcendental-phenomenological elucidation of the world and its complexity has been aware of the transintentional intersubjectivity of this constitution. Because of the different forms that acquaintanceship takes, the capacity for truth, and the extent of the comprehensible complexity of what exists in the world, vary according to the manner in which meaning and world are intersubjectively constituted. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 132

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Giddens’s account of how expert systems reconfigure what counts as ‘the world’ for lay actors; both treat comprehension as socially produced, not individual. — connects to: The world’s instrumental organization depends partly on constituting consciousness