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From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: Folk psychology (was: Is Common Sense Explicit or Implicit?)
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 18:32:08 GMT
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In article <Cwy4tD.7Fy@festival.ed.ac.uk>,
Chris Malcolm <cam@castle.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>Note that some of the cleverest animals seem able to lie, in the sense
>that they will deliberately pretend to be doing A when they are really
>doing B in order to mislead a hostile onlooker who would be provoked
>by them doing B. I find it difficult to understand how one can pretend
>or lie without some notion of the beliefs of others as distinct from
>one's own different beliefs.

In late 1993 Scientific American ran an article about psychological
experiments to measure some aspect of mental states in animals.
For much of this century behaviorist psychological avoided this
difficult measurement, some to the point of saying mental states
dont exist.
Deception was one of the mental states discussed in the article.
