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    It is not the case that A human being can mentally simulate what follows from having another human being's mental states without resorting to theoretical knowledge about the mind's inner workings.

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    • 1.Human beings differ systematically in their mental states due to culture, neurodiversity, and idiosyncratic history, undermining the 'relevant similarity' assumption.
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    • 2.When simulators adjust for known differences between self and target, they must invoke folk-psychological generalizations, reintroducing tacit theoretical knowledge.
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    • 3.Goldman's 'quarantine problem' shows simulators cannot reliably prevent their own actual beliefs from contaminating the pretend inputs fed into simulation.
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    • 1.Dennett's heterophenomenology argues that privileged introspective access to one's own mental states is itself theoretically laden and not a neutral starting point.
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    • 2.If introspection is already infected by folk-psychological theory, reusing one's own cognitive mechanisms as a simulation base covertly smuggles in theoretical knowledge.
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    • 1.If a system S tries to simulate the state of a relevantly similar system S*, then S's simulation can be entirely process-driven: S simply runs in itself a process similar to the one S* underwent.
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    • 2.Human beings are, for all intents and purposes, relevantly similar to each other.
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    • 3.A human being simulating another human being need only reuse her own cognitive mechanisms to implement a simulation process.
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