EP141 Heather Heying on Confronting Hyper-Novelty
The Jim Rutt Show
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The Theory of Mind
Theory of mind is the idea that you, as an individual, can understand the mental state of some one else. And so we can see theory of mind developing in young children when they can infer by watching what other people see. One of my favourite books, an in fact, which is again mentioned in ours, is chanian safarth's baboon metaphysics. This is a husband wife team of anthropologists who are studying baboons. Theres their theory of mind and baboon's ability to actually infer the cognitive states of others - even when it differs from their own. So theory of mind is absolutely fundamental to so much of what humans do. If i imagine that the only
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