In "Mindblindness," Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the
evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we
mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly
unconsciously. It is the natural way in which we interpret,
predict, and participate in social behavior and communication. We
ascribe mental states to people: states such as thoughts, desires,
knowledge, and intentions.
Building on many years of research, Baron-Cohen concludes that
children with autism, suffer from "mindblindness" as a result of a
selective impairment in mindreading. For these children, the world
is essentially devoid of mental things.
Baron-Cohen develops a theory that draws on data from
comparative psychology, from developmental, and from
neuropsychology. He argues that specific neurocognitive mechanisms
have evolved that allow us to mindread, to make sense of actions,
to interpret gazes as meaningful, and to decode "the language of
the eyes."
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