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, 2012 The ability to understand and predict others' behavior is essential for successful interactions. When making predictions about what other humans will do, we treat them as intentional systems and adopt the intentional stance, i.e., refer to their mental ...
Hermann J Müller +19 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 At the core of anthropomorphism lies a false positive cognitive bias to over-attribute the pattern of the human body and/or mind. Anthropomorphism is independently discussed in various disciplines, is presumed to have deep biological roots, but its ...
Marco Antonio Correa Varella
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Mind, Matter, Meaning and Information
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2012 This article aims to show how mind, matter and meaning might be united in one theory using certain concepts of information, building on ideas of empathy and intentionality.
Robin Faichney
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Diachronic Rationality and Prediction-Based Games [PDF]
, 2010 I explore the debate about causal versus evidential decision theory, and its recent developments in the work of Andy Egan, through the method of some simple games based on agents' predictions of each other's actions.
Wallace, David +2 more
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Is psychoanalysis a Folk-psychology?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Even as the neuro-psychoanalytic field has matured, the epistemological status of Freudian interpretations still remains problematic. As a result of the resurgence of hermeneutics, the claim has been made that psychoanalysis is an extension of folk ...
Mathieu eArminjon
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The mediating role of anthropomorphism in adopting the intentional stance towards humanoid robots
, 2022 Evidence from cognitive psychology showed that cultural differences influence human social cognition, leading to a different activation of social cognitive mechanisms. A growing corpus of literature in Human-Robot Interaction is investigating how culture
Nicolas Spatola +2 more
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, 2008 This paper introduces a model of ‘theory of mind’, namely, how we represent the intentions and goals of others to optimise our mutual interactions. We draw on ideas from optimum control and game theory to provide a ‘game theory of mind’.
Friston, K. +13 more
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Teleological markers: Seven lines of hypotheses around Dennett's theory of habits
Scientia et Fides, 2014 Neuroscientists frequently use two folk psychology terms –self and consciousness– in formulating decision-making process models. According to Daniel Dennett, such notions lead them to dualistic view of brain functions and hence to dead ends or, at least,
Luis E. Echarte
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, 2013 Could interacting mindreaders be in a position to know things which they would be unable to know if they were manifestly passive observers? This paper argues that they could.
Butterfill, Stephen Andrew +1 more
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The Consequences of Anthropomorphic and Teleological Beliefs in a Global Pandemic
Behavioral SciencesTo describe something in terms of its purpose or function is to describe its teleology. Previous studies have found that teleological beliefs are positively related to anthropomorphism, and that anthropomorphism decreases the perceived unpredictability ...
Andrew J. Roberts +2 more
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