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Dennett II 145
Thinking/Nicholas Humphrey (psychologist): thesis: thinking has emerged as a strategy for developing and testing hypotheses about what goes on in the minds of others.
Cf. >Theory of Mind, >Other minds, >Consciousness, >Hypotheses.
Self-consciousness arises from the insight that one can apply sensibly the hypotheses about others on oneself.
>Self-consciousness, >Intersubjectivity.

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