Follow-up: Non-human animals have minds, justifying mentalization
xuanalogue · x · 2026-08-31
This is a follow-up to the discussion on attributing mental states to AI. The author argues that non-human animals clearly possess patterns that indicate they have minds, making belief-desire mentalization warranted. This reinforces the idea that the key to justifying mental state attribution to any system lies in the presence of real underlying behavioral patterns.
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