Iain M Banks - The Culture complete works
by Iain M. Banks · 5,095pp · 1,429,463 words
the first simulations happened in the heads–or other appropriate body- or being-parts–of animals, or the equivalent, probably shortly after they developed a theory of mind and started to think about how to manipulate their peers to ensure access to food, shelter, mating opportunities or greater social standing. Thoughts like, If
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
by Paul Collier · 4 Dec 2018 · 310pp · 85,995 words
rational self-interest. But we predict the actions of the butcher and the baker by putting ourselves in their shoes; it is known as the ‘theory of mind’. Smith recognized that seeing a person from the inside not only enables us to understand them, but induces us to care about them and assess
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confident that we can predict how they will behave. We have more confidence in our predictions if we can safely use the techniques of a ‘theory of mind’: I predict your behaviour by imagining how I would behave in your circumstances. But using this technique is only reliable to the extent that I
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–3, 44, 97–8, 107–8 ‘oughts’ and ‘wants’, 27, 28, 33, 43 personal achievement vs family obligation, 99–103, 104–6, 108–9, 210 ‘theory of mind’, 27, 55 Public Choice Theory, 15–16 public goods, 134–5, 138–9, 186, 202, 213 public ownership, 90 Puigdemont, Carles, 202 purposive action, 18
Intense Worlds
by Maia Szalavitz · 11 Dec 2013 · 27pp · 7,627 words
unknown. The most prominent theory suggests that autism results from problems with the brain’s social regions, which results in a deficit of empathy. This “theory of mind” concept was developed by Uta Frith, Alan Leslie, and Simon Baron-Cohen in the 1980s. They found that autistic children are late to develop the
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. But while the Sally-Anne experiment shows that autistic people have difficulty knowing that other people have different perspectives—what researchers call cognitive empathy or “theory of mind”—it doesn’t show that they don’t care when someone is hurt or feeling pain, whether emotional or physical. In terms of caring—technically
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we looked at the autism field we couldn’t believe it,” Markram says. “Everybody was looking at it as if they have no empathy, no theory of mind. And actually Kai, as awkward as he was, saw through you. He had a much deeper understanding of what really was your intention.” And he
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details. Mottron’s support is unsurprising, of course, because the intense world dovetails with his own findings. But even one of the creators of the “theory of mind” concept finds much of it plausible. Simon Baron-Cohen, who directs the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, told me, “I am open to the
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idea that the social deficits in autism—like problems with the cognitive aspects of empathy, which is also known as ‘theory of mind’—may be upstream from a more basic sensory abnormality.” In other words, the Markrams’ physiological model could be the cause, and the social deficits he
The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski · 5 Mar 2019 · 202pp · 62,901 words
different sorts of problems, and the resources needed to solve them. In the same way that neuroscientists have in recent decades stolen debates over the theory of mind away from philosophers, complexity theorists and computer scientists are stealing this debate away from economists and political scientists. However, the discussion still largely remains hidden
Monotropism: A Unified Theory of Autism
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it’s all too easy to stretch them beyond their domain of applicability, and it can cause real problems, like assuming autistic adults have no theory of mind. Maybe it’s my autistic perfectionism, but I don’t like theories to leave too many loose ends. Monotropism provides a far more comprehensive explanation
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the field, points out that ‘often in psychology a new theory is built on top of an empirical finding — this is what happened certainly with Theory of Mind which was rooted in a 1985 experimental study by Simon Baron-Cohen, Alan Leslie and Uta Frith. For non-autistic psychologists, there is no lived
Protocol: how control exists after decentralization
by Alexander R. Galloway · 1 Apr 2004 · 287pp · 86,919 words
fundamentally different than the hard, rigid world of computer code. Yet this book has very little to say about questions epistemological. Protocol is not a theory of mind. Nor, following Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter in their forward to the fascinating collection Incorporations, is protocol a theory of the body. For, as they
The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
by James Rickards · 15 Nov 2016 · 354pp · 105,322 words
-in-cyberspace/. Selected Sources ARTICLES De Martino, Benedetto, John P. O’Doherty, Debajyoti Ray, Peter Bossaerts, and Colin Camerer. “In the Mind of the Market: Theory of Mind Biases Value Computation during Financial Bubbles.” Neuron Vol. 79, 1222–31, September 18, 2013. Henriksson, Roy D., and Robert C. Merton. “On Market Timing and
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier · 28 May 2018 · 151pp · 39,757 words
about what someone else experiences as part of understanding that person is called having a theory of mind. To have a theory of mind is to build a story in your head about what’s going on in someone else’s head. Theory of mind is at the core of any sense of respect or empathy, and it’s
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a mile in their shoes.” You can’t understand people without knowing a little of what they’ve gone through. Most animals get by without theory of mind, but people need it. When you can only see how someone else behaves, but not the experiences that influenced their behavior, it becomes harder to
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have a theory of mind about that person. If you see someone hit someone else, for instance, but you did not see that they did it in defense of a
Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side
by Simon McCarthy-Jones · 12 Apr 2021
. 2 (2016): 131–146. 77. D. Ewing, V. Zeigler-Hill, and J. Vonk, “Spitefulness and Deficits in the Social-Perceptual and Social-Cognitive Components of Theory of Mind,” Personality and Individual Differences 91 (2016): 7–13. 78. B. Bryson, Notes from a Small Island (London: Transworld, 1995), 336. 79. This point is made
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
by Adam Rutherford · 7 Sep 2016
face it, is a load of old cobblers already. The annexing of this word from fundamental physics also ranges from washing powder branding to the theory of mind. Lots of real scientific terms get borrowed for a spot of buzzword scienceyness. We see the same effect with the words ‘neuro-’ or ‘nano-’ added
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