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    Cultural mediation explains variation in folk-psychologic... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Making sense of other minds must be understood as a culturally mediated activity.

    Cultural mediation explains variation in folk-psychological content but cannot explain the prior capacity to recognize others as minded beings at all.

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    • 1.Infants attribute goal-directedness to agents before acquiring culturally-specific folk concepts, suggesting pre-cultural mindedness recognition.
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    • 2.Neural mechanisms for detecting agency and intentionality appear universal across cultures, indicating biological foundations independent of mediation.
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    • 3.Cultural variation in mind-attribution (e.g., which entities count as minded) presupposes a prior ability to recognize minds at all.
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    • 1.What counts as 'recognizing minds' may itself be culturally constructed—infants' proto-agency detection isn't yet full folk-psychological capacity.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'prior capacity' and 'cultural content' cannot be cleanly separated; culture shapes how the capacity develops and manifests.
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    • 3.Universal neural patterns may reflect convergent cultural evolution rather than pre-cultural foundations, so universality doesn't prove non-mediation.
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