Shared Action Doctrine

Shared Action Doctrine explains how cooperative tasks dissolve hostility more reliably than emotional confrontation. By shifting friction into shared function, systems thaw without demanding vulnerability, creating a low-activation path back to cooperation.

Shared Action Doctrine

Axiom

Shared action softens what shared emotion cannot.

Doctrine

This doctrine holds that hostility dissolves more reliably through cooperative tasks than through emotional confrontation. When individuals work side-by-side on a practical objective, opposition becomes inefficient and coordination becomes easier. The task absorbs friction that would otherwise be carried in conversation, allowing relational tension to decrease without requiring vulnerability, confession, or forced reconciliation.

Within Convivial Systems Theory, Shared Action Doctrine describes a low-activation repair mechanism: systems thaw through function first, creating a safe pathway back to cooperation before emotional depth is possible.

Form

Choose a concrete task with shared stake.
Keep the aim practical. Let function carry the thaw.

Neural Network Mapping

In learning systems, “shared action” looks like forcing coordination through a common objective rather than negotiating internal representations. Multi-agent systems don’t need identical beliefs to cooperate. They need a shared reward signal and a constrained interface that makes coordination cheaper than conflict.

When the objective is clear and the interaction space is bounded:
• agents converge on compatible policies even with different internal models
• adversarial gradients weaken because there’s less surface area for dispute
• cooperation becomes the locally optimal move

In ML terms: you don’t cure disagreement by aligning hidden states. You instead reduce conflict by aligning the reward surface and narrowing the interaction channel.

Enmity Cured (essay)

Applied example (SIA)

Family Estrangement (SIA)