If the same mechanism generated both beliefs and imaginings, the phenomenological and functional quarantine between them—documented by Currie and Ravenscroft—would require additional unexplained inhibitory machinery, undermining parsimony claims.
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Inhibitory machinery(as used in philosophy of mind)
Extra brain systems or processes that would need to stop or block something from happening—in this case, systems that would prevent imaginings from being treated like beliefs.
Phenomenological(describing the approach to studying self-awareness in this debate)
Related to phenomenology, the philosophical study of what it's actually like to experience things and how consciousness works from the inside.
mechanism(Nineteenth-century scientific worldview that challenged interactionist dualism)
The scientific and philosophical view that the physical world is causally closed and that all events are explicable solely in terms of physical laws
parsimony(Used by both Tomasello & Call and Povinelli & Vonk to justify mutually incompatible conclusions)
A criterion of explanatory simplicity favoring hypotheses that posit fewer entities, capacities, or rules to account for the same data.