#268 - The Limits of Self-Knowledge
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The Evolution of Theory of Mind in Chimpanzees
theory of mind is the ability to represent the mental states of others such that you can recognize that other people can have rather often different beliefs and desires and expectations than you do. The famous test of this is to set up a little playhouse with some dolls and and ask kids around the age of four where they are going to look for an object. It's only once they can develop the concept of another person holding a false belief that they can give the correct answer which is he's going to believe it was where he where where it last was before he left the room. So yeah I mean remind me I think we while there's some possible basis for very rudimentary theory of mind in other primates
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