How Hard Is This Intuition for You?

Rit: My perception of another's mental state is also, i think, constructed by the same principles. I am always making a best guess about your mental state, and its being continually updated by the conversation that we're now having. And it's just a deeper inference that to get to somebody else's mental state, it's not just what light is being reflected from the surface of your face hand. So there's a recursiveness, which makes things even more challenging. Rit: Any interpersonal interaction is framed by the context in which it takes place. We have to experience ourselves as inhabiting a shared perceptual reality. It's a kind of ground rules for having a dialogue.