Knowing Minds of Others
Is it possible to know what is going on in another person’s mind? I wouldn’t say
that it is possible to know what is going on in another person’s mind, but I would say that
you can have a pretty good idea of what is going on in their mind.
I don’t think that there is any possibility that anyone could know what is going on
in someone else’s mind without having that person be hooked up to some kind of
electrical devise that outputs what is going on in their mind. Then and only then do I think
that that is the only way someone can tell what someone else is thinking.
With the example of having a pretty good idea of what is going on in someone
else’s head; I have three friends that are girls and they are pretty much inseparable, but
when they are apart they always know what the other one is doing and have a pretty good
idea of what they are thinking and doing at that particular time. They know each other so
well that they can finish each others sentences, just look at each other and know what the
other one is probably thinking, and kind of sense what the other one is thinking and might
do.
Going back to the question of being able to know what is going on in another
person’s mind; Like I said before, I don’t believe that there is a way that someone can
possibly know what is going on in another person’s mind. Of course, people will say that
there are psychics that can know what is going on in someone else’s mind or be able to
know of things that only that person would know. This is all fake because psychics have a
way of luring out things from people and making them think that they know things about
them or know what they are thinking or feeling.
I have some really good friends that I have know all of my life, and we know
pretty much everything about each other. Even though we know so much about each
other, there is no way that any of us could know what is going on in each other’s mind.
Of course, we can have a pretty good idea of what each other is thinking, but we can’t
know what the other person or person’s is thinking.
I mean, there are times when someone has asked us a question and one of us has
If it’s your imagination or an illusion. The difficulty is that he cannot be certain about his sense
almost see or relate to what is being described, but as time progresses you can
The Tell, by Matthew Hertenstein, is about the power of prediction based on observations of brief samples of others’ behavior. Throughout this book, Hertenstein teaches what tells in early life predict autism, how photographs betray others’ personality and aggressive inclinations, how smiling predicts marital stability, how micro-expressions signal deception, how facial structure predicts companies’ profits, and who wins political elections. In the following few pages, there will be many clues on what tells can predict certain things for the future (Hertenstein, ix).
what they say in their writing and by the very act of writing, which is an act of perception
Although the question regarding the existence of the inner sense remains, it is clear that the transparent epistemic rule allows for an individual to further understand their mental state, therefore supporting the idea of privileged access. Assuming that one is conscious of their state of mind, the logical rules allow inductive and deductive inferences to be made and can therefore help an individual determine what is true and not.
People often underestimate how accurate their subconscious thoughts really are. How can one “think”, without actually thinking? An assistant psychologist at Princeton University, Alex Todorov, answers this question. Todrov agrees that as time passes and one becomes more acquainted with people, one would begin to make a more informed opinion about another that is most likely different than what their fist initial impression would have been, ho...
In “The Problem of Other Minds” Carruther 's argues that we as humans, cannot have knowledge of other people 's mental states other than our own. It is possible that when one calls an object red, it may appear green to another person. Thus, both members could possibly have the same or completely different experience without ever noticing, as we call those experience by the same names. Carruther 's arguments shouldn 't be taken seriously, as I believe the the problem could be looked at from analogy. That is to say, if I were to experience something such as pain with similar reactions towards how you react, wouldn 't it be rational to say that you and I both have a mind ? If one of the purposes of having a mental state is to alert humans in
that we can be sure of is that we are thinking things. Even in denying that we are thinking things we are affirming
being able to respond to them. Those whom have practiced mindfulness are aware of its
It can factually be said that beings in which can think, therefore have a mind, thus have causes for behavior. "As it is clear to me that the causal laws governing my behavior have to do with ‘thoughts’, it is natural to infer that the same is true of the analogous behavior of my friends" (Russell 89). Thus the aspect of inference is now the main concern when relating to analogy. Can we infer that other beings have thoughts and feelings to result such causes, as that in which is observable?
Everything people do is connected to psychology. As a multi-faceted and wide-ranging discipline, the focus of psychology the mental activity and behavior of people (Grison, Heatherton & Gazzaniga, 2016). Cognitive processes such as perception enable an individual to make sense of the endless environmental stimulus encountered in daily life (Grison, Heatherton & Gazzaniga, 2016). From reading this text, to walking a dog, reaching a personal goal, or deciding which shoes to wear, perceptions not only influence decision making, they allow an individual to navigate the world. Moreover, it is an individual’s perceptions that can affect their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Who a person is in terms of their intelligence, motives, goals,
assume we can find out who individuals truly are by the simple things they say or do. A major
perception of what goes on in his mind. He also uses Watson as a sort
One knows that one causes some of one 's own ideas read in Principles of Human knowledge page 28. Since the mind is passive in perception, there are ideas which one 's own mind does not
they are one person combined together. A special bond is shared and a sense of