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    Lisa's mental simulation of disgust does not constitute a mindreading event.

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    • 1.Mindreading requires intentional content directed at another's mental state as its object, per Brentano's criterion of intentionality.
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    • 2.Mental simulation, as Alvin Goldman distinguishes in 'Simulating Minds,' produces a first-person state, not a third-person attributed state.
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    • 3.A first-person simulated state lacks the 'other-directed' intentional structure necessary to constitute a representation of John's mind.
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    • 1.Shaun Gallagher's enactivist critique establishes that mirroring processes are sub-personal and lack the propositional structure of mindreading ascriptions.
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    • 2.Mindreading, on the theory-theory account, minimally requires forming a belief with the content 'S is in mental state M,' which simulation alone cannot produce.
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    • 1.A mindreading event requires judging that another person has a certain mental state.
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    • 2.Lisa undergoing a mirrored disgust experience (mental simulation) is a different mental event from judging that John is experiencing disgust.
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    • 3.Therefore, Lisa's simulated disgust experience is not an event of judging that John has a mental state.
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    We shall elaborate on the details of the Constitution View in section 4.3. Before doing that, we consider an argument that has been directed against it over and over again, and which is supposed to show that the Constitution View is a non-starter (Fuller 1995; Heal 1995; Goldman 2008b; Jacob 2008, 2012). Lacking a better name, we will call it “the Anti-Constitution argument”. Here it is. By definition, a mindreading event is a mental event in which a subject, S, represents another subject, Q,
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