The only example I can think of where self-pretension would be best is if you are trying to fully empathize with another person, Daniel-Day Lewis style, perhaps as a way to predict what they’ll do next (or behave exactly like them in a play) . I would like to ask the following question: If you incorporate their beliefs, to what extent is this self-pretension or just an attempt to incorporate them in your brain? (I.e., dedicating some subset of your brain neurons to simulating them?)
“If you incorporate their beliefs, to what extent is this self-pretension or just an attempt to incorporate them in your brain?”
I don’t think we know enough neuroscience to know. Either way it is some set of neurons ‘adopting’ those beliefs. The question I guess is whether that set can become part of your system of beliefs that influence your day to day actions subsonsciously and consciously? I can’t make the question clear which I think is because we don’t understand the architecture well enough to do so.
The only example I can think of where self-pretension would be best is if you are trying to fully empathize with another person, Daniel-Day Lewis style, perhaps as a way to predict what they’ll do next (or behave exactly like them in a play) . I would like to ask the following question: If you incorporate their beliefs, to what extent is this self-pretension or just an attempt to incorporate them in your brain? (I.e., dedicating some subset of your brain neurons to simulating them?)
“If you incorporate their beliefs, to what extent is this self-pretension or just an attempt to incorporate them in your brain?”
I don’t think we know enough neuroscience to know. Either way it is some set of neurons ‘adopting’ those beliefs. The question I guess is whether that set can become part of your system of beliefs that influence your day to day actions subsonsciously and consciously? I can’t make the question clear which I think is because we don’t understand the architecture well enough to do so.