Evolutionary and developmental aspects of intersubjectivity
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Humans have a unique capacity to share and understand others’ mental states. The mental states involve not only beliefs, but all forms of consciousness such as emotions, desires, attentional foci and intentions. Representing the mental states of others will here be called intersubjectivity (Stern 1985). In the philosophical and psychological debate, the capacity is commonly known as having a “theory of mind” (Premack and Woodruff 1978). I want to avoid that term since it often presumes that one can understand the beliefs of others, something which, on my account, is but one aspect of intersubjectivity.
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