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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Social cognition theories often blend enactivism with Theory of Mind (ToM).
  • This blend assumes social cognition relies on mental representations and innate cognitive toolkits.
  • These assumptions contradict core enactivist principles.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Critically analyze and reject accounts that merge active inference with ToM for social cognition.
  • Advance an enactivist-dynamic understanding of social cognition compatible with active inference.
  • Propose a novel model for social cognition that avoids contradictions inherent in ToM-based approaches.

Main Methods:

  • Rejection of ToM-inspired social cognition theories.
  • Clarification of social cognition within an enactivist framework, excluding representational assumptions.
  • Development of an enactivist-dynamic model using dynamical systems theory.

Main Results:

  • Identified contradictions in blending enactivism with Theory of Mind.
  • Presented an alternative enactivist-dynamic model of social cognition.
  • Demonstrated social understanding as generalized synchronization using active inference.

Conclusions:

  • Enactivism and Theory of Mind are fundamentally incompatible for explaining social cognition.
  • An enactivist-dynamic approach offers a coherent framework for understanding social cognition.
  • Active inference can model social understanding as dynamic, synchronized interaction.