p.29-30 If a subject does not know about the kinds of cues in his own situation a sophisticated observer
can use as a source of information, then the subject can hardly obfuscate them (or accentuate them), were he desirous of doing
so.
p.47 As G.H. Mead has argued, when an individual considers taking a course of action, he is likely
to hold off until he has imagined in his mind the consequence of his action for others involved, their likely response to
this consequence, and the bearing of this response on his own designs. He then modifies his action so that it now incorporates
that which he calculates will usefully modify the other's generated response. In effect, he adapts to the other's response
before it has been called forth, and adapts in such a way that it never does have to be made. Has has thus incorporated
tacit moves into his line of behavior.
p.95 A second matter that Harry will want to know about is what has been called operational code,
namely, the orientation to gaming that will diffusely influence how the opponent plays... There is the opponent's preference
pattern or utility function, namely, his ordering, weak or strong, of aims and goals.
p.100-101 Now it is possible to review the defining conditions for strategic interaction.
Two or more parties must find themselves in a well-structured situation of mutual impingement where each party must make a
move and where every possible move carries fateful implications for all of the parties. In this situation, each player must
influence his own decision by his knowing that the other players are likely to try to dope out his decision in advance,
and may even appreciate that he knows this is likely. Courses of action or moves will then be made in light of one's
thoughts about the others' thoughts about oneself. An exchange of moves made on the basis of this kind of orientation to self
and others can be called strategic interaction.
p.102 Once nature, self-interest, and an intelligent opponent are assumed, nothing else need be; strategic
interaction follows. And, in fact, some of the developments in game theory require no more than these minimal assumptions,
the object being to find a desirable strategy for Harry in the face of opponents as intelligent and amoral as himself.
p.114 One can begin by noting that Harry's situation... can be seen in terms of the constraints, restrictions,
and controls that dominate his activity. These must be analytically differentiated.
p.137 strategic interaction addresses itself directly to the dynamics of interdependence involving
mutual awareness; it seeks out basic moves and inquires into natural stopping points in the potentially infinite
cycle of two players taking into consideration their consideration of each other's consideration, and so forth.
