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    It is not the case that Simulation Theorists are justified in considering imagining believing to be a high-level simulation process.

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    • 1.Reusing a belief-forming mechanism does not constitute simulation of belief unless the outputs are functionally isomorphic to actual beliefs.
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    • 2.Nichols and Stich's own quarantine hypothesis shows imagined beliefs are inferentially isolated, violating functional isomorphism with real beliefs.
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    • 3.A process that systematically lacks the inferential integration of belief cannot be classified as a high-level simulation of believing.
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    • 1.Satisfying necessary conditions (a) and (b) does not establish that imaginative belief-states are genuinely doxastic simulations rather than mere pretense states.
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    • 2.Currie and Ravenscroft's distinction between recreative and enactive imagination shows that phenomenological mimicry of belief falls short of simulation in the relevant sense.
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    • 1.Imagining believing satisfies condition (a).
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    • 2.Imagining believing satisfies condition (b.i).
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    • 3.Imagining believing satisfies condition (b.ii) in that it is implemented by reuse of the belief-forming mechanism.
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