Humans, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 5(1), С. 5 - 5
Опубликована: Фев. 12, 2025
Is there a qualitative difference between apes’ and humans ‘ability to estimate others’ mental states’, a.k.a. ‘Theory-of-Mind’? After opting for the idea that expectations are empty profiles recognize particular content when it arrives, I apply same description ‘vicarious expectations’—very probably present in apes. Thus, (empty) vicarious one’s (full) contents distinguished without needing meta-representation. Then, propose: First, enough support Theory-of-Mind (including ‘spontaneous altruism’). Second, since require profile previously built subject activates them, this cannot activate any expectation of states intrinsically impossible him. Third, your think me as distal individual me, therefore, must contents. This ability (the original nucleus human Theory-of-Mind) is essential lifestyle. It involved unpleasant pleasant self-conscious emotions, which respectively contribute ‘social order’ cultural innovations. More basically, makes possible (prelinguistic or linguistic) communication, originally made understanding addressed therefore me.
Язык: Английский