The computational theory of mind, in essence, says that your brain works like a computer.
The absence of relevant mirror neurons, he suggests, means the absence of theory of mind.
And, as Dr Okubo points out, some of these areas are also associated with theory of mind.
If one could be found, it might illuminate the way that theory of mind evolved in the first place.
Response to gaze is reckoned to be a good measure of the development of theory of mind in human children.
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By contrast, a truly non-dualistic theory of mind has to state what is clearly obvious: your mind and your brain are identical.
This deficiency is in an area called "theory of mind" by psychiatrists.
Adherents of the computational theory of mind often claim that the only alternative theories of mind would necessarily involve a supernatural or dualistic component.
Mr. Dunbar's "social brain hypothesis" rests on another idea the theory of mind which argues that we use our brains to imagine what others are thinking.
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The evolution and function of these emotions is bound up with an area of research called theory of mind, to which this survey will return later.
One of the most intriguing ideas about theory of mind comes from another sort of lesion study, an examination of the puzzling condition known as autism.
This may sound odd (a theory of mind among hominids?), but as Pagel notes, even two-year-old babies have a greater understanding of what other humans believe than even adult apes do.
Though no one has yet proved the case, it looks as though the evolution of language and the evolution of theory of mind might not only be two sides of the same coin, but might actually be different specialisations of the same basic structure.
Memory also appears to play a role in imagining what someone else might be feeling, known as theory of mind, which is helpful in deciding how to behave in unfamiliar social situations, such as going to a party with a new group of friends or starting a job.
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The theory brings to mind New Age crankery, and some of the research Mr Flannery cites to underpin it is speculative at best.
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The fox keeps an open mind, adjusts theory to evidence and is wary of ideology.
Economics is prone to conditions that call to mind chaos theory: Given time and a sequence of interacting elements, two seemingly similar situations can lead to very different outcomes.
When the practice of managing up gets confused with promotion of self-interest, brown-nosing, manipulation, the gymnastics of corporate climbing, or other mind games, a good theory rapidly becomes twisted resulting in a false and dangerous reality.
Mr Bethe not only did not mind, but he gamely proceeded to work on elaborations of the theory.
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Thatcherism was not a fully worked out theory when Mrs Thatcher entered office in 1979 (and critics of the Third Way may want to bear that in mind).
While accuracy is important to David Saltzberg, a University of California-Los Angeles physics professor and consultant to CBS' Big Bang Theory, he has another goal in mind: outreach.
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