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Mirroring, Simulating and Mindreading
Author(s) -
GOLDMAN ALVIN I.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2008.01361.x
Subject(s) - mirroring , psychology , theory of mind , simulated reality , cognitive psychology , reading (process) , cognitive science , computer science , artificial intelligence , communication , philosophy , linguistics , cognition , neuroscience
Pierre Jacob (2008) raises several problems for the alleged link between mirroring and mindreading. This response argues that the best mirroring‐mindreading thesis would claim that mirror processes cause, rather than constitute, selected acts of mindreading. Second, the best current evidence for mirror‐based mindreading is not found in the motoric domain but in the domains of emotion and sensation, where the evidence (ignored by Jacob) is substantial. Finally, simulation theory should distinguish low‐level simulation (mirroring) and high‐level simulation (involving pretense or imagination). Jacob implies that bi‐level simulationism creates an unbridgeable ‘gap’ in intention reading, but this is not a compelling challenge.