Andrew Lampinen defends behavior-to-mental-state inference as core cognitive science
AndrewLampinen · x · 2026-10-11
Andrew Lampinen laid out his full position: not a dualist, but a fundamental tenet of cognitive science is that mental states and processes can be inferred from external behavior under the right manipulations, helping predict behavior elsewhere. He argues metaphors are useful at that level, and that "person" (a physical living being) differs in kind from mental states like beliefs.
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