Does sociology need a theory of mind?

Does a functioning mind need a functioning body ?

One of the main topics of the proposed book is the computational requirements for designing a functioning mind. This could either be a “purely rational” mind or it could be a mind with affective capacity. In this paper I would like to consider whether is is meaningful to consider designing such a mind without simultaneously designing a body to go with it. We shall take a non-dualist perspective...

Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"?

We use a new model of metarepresentational development to predict a cognitive deficit which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism. One of the manifestations of a basic metarepresentational capacity is a ‘theory of mind’. We have reason to believe that autistic children lack such a ‘theory’. If this were so, then they would be unable to impute beliefs to ...

Do visual perspective tasks need theory of mind?

Reviews [Frith, U., Frith, C.D., 2003. Development and neurophysiology of mentalising. Philos. Trans. R. Soc., B 358, 685-694.] of several imaging studies report robust involvement of medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) in "theory of mind" (ToM) tasks. Surprisingly, this activation is notably absent when judging another person's visual perspective [Vogeley, K., May, M., Ritzl, A., Falkai, P., Zille...

Does a Functioning Mind Need a Functioning Body? Some Perspectives from Postclassical Computation

In recent years, the idea that somatic processes are intimately involved in actions traditionally considered to be purely mental has come to the fore. In particular, these arguments have revolved around the concept of somatic markers, i.e., bodily states that are generated by mind and then reperceived and acted upon. This chapter considers the somatic marker hypothesis and related ideas from th...

A Quantum Theory of Mind