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    It is not the case that Something counts as a mind only if it meets certain rational standards

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Infants, severely cognitively impaired persons, and many non-human animals possess genuine mental states without satisfying robust rationality norms.
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    • 2.A theory of mind that excludes paradigm cases of minded beings is revisionary in a way that undermines its own credibility.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Fodor and Millikan demonstrate that mental content can be naturalized via causal-informational or teleosemantic relations, bypassing normative rationality constraints entirely.
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    • 2.If mental states are individuated by their causal-functional roles rather than rational coherence, rationality becomes an optional feature of minds rather than a constitutive one.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Rationality is constitutive of the mental
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    • 2.Psychological attributions are only appropriate for entities that qualify as minds
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