Situating and Extending the Sense of Should. Reply to comments on “The sense of should: A biologically based framework for modeling social pressure”.

We would like to thank Constant, Friston, and Ramstead, Fotopoulou, Jebari, Rai, Tsakiris, and Tummolini and Pezzulo for their insightful comments. We are honored to have our work read so thoughtfully and by the encouragement to extend our thinking even further. Two themes we observe in the comments are (a) the question of what the boundaries of the sense of should are (including whether it has explanatory value in itself, or whether it is something to be explained), and (b) how it can be generative for understanding other social phenomena, such as politics, morality, and embodiment. We believe that these two themes complement each other, and that by clearly delineating the boundaries of the sense of should we can sharpen its theoretical connections to social cognition as understood in the broadest sense.