I think there’s also some theory of mind used by us outside observers when we label some events “deception.”
We’re finding it easy to predict what the “evil demon” will do by using a simple model that treats it as an agent trying to affect the beliefs of another agent. If the stuff in the environment didn’t reward the intentional stance like this, we wouldn’t see the things as agents, let alone see them as doing deception.
I think there’s also some theory of mind used by us outside observers when we label some events “deception.”
We’re finding it easy to predict what the “evil demon” will do by using a simple model that treats it as an agent trying to affect the beliefs of another agent. If the stuff in the environment didn’t reward the intentional stance like this, we wouldn’t see the things as agents, let alone see them as doing deception.