SOCI 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Third Order, Educational Toy, Frontal Lobe
10 Dec 2017
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Numbers of friends positively correlated to size of neocortex. Can"t read minds; mostly guess fro actions. Well developed capacity to understand, recognise and predict the mental states of others from actions. Someone"s actions towards you infer their feelings towards that person. Nodding head infers agreement, coming early infers being excited. Capacity to understand, recognise, and share emotion. What roles taken, how made infer state of mind. Taking on the role and how they play the roles says a lot about them. Nature of social relations discoverable in situations. Intentionality, si depends on size of frontal lobe. Monkeys (first)>chimps (second)> humans (3rd, fourth)( 6th ) humans>causal reasoning by analogy, metaphor. Run 2+ world views, at same time, envision future. Detect, think of content of own mind. Every mammal, bird knows its own mind. Variable ability to recognise that others think. Humans acquire this level at about 4 years. Others have minds, self can think of this fact.
