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    It is not the case that Low level mindreading must be distinguished from higher levels of mindreading

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    • 1.Simulation theory (Gordon, Goldman) holds that mindreading at all levels uses the same core mechanism: running one's own cognitive systems offline.
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    • 2.If a single simulation process underlies both basic empathy and belief-desire reasoning, the neurological differences reflect task complexity, not distinct faculties.
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    • 3.Overlapping neural activations across 'low' and 'high' mindreading tasks reported by Gallese & Goldman (1998) are inconsistent with a clean categorical boundary.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's later philosophy argues that understanding others is grounded in shared forms of life, not separable levels of psychological inference.
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    • 2.If social cognition is holistically embedded in practice, isolating 'low-level' mindreading as knowledge-poor presupposes an atomism that begs the question against contextualist accounts.
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    • 1.Everyday mindreading involves not only basic empathy but also understanding behavior in complex social contexts using concepts of belief and desire
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    • 2.Neuroscience shows that mentalizing tasks involve very different neuronal areas (medial prefrontal cortex, temporoparietal cortex, cingulate cortex)
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    • 3.Low level mindreading in the realm of basic empathy is relatively knowledge-poor and does not involve a psychological theory or complex psychological concepts
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