Grounded in behavioral naturalism and informed by my panmodal aphantasia, the study reveals that Theory of Mind operates as an Epistemic Mirror—a self-referential projection mechanism that reflects the observer’s own cognitive logic rather than illuminating the other.
Grounded in behavioral naturalism and informed by my panmodal aphantasia, the study reveals that Theory of Mind operates as an Epistemic Mirror—a self-referential projection mechanism that reflects the observer’s own cognitive logic rather than illuminating the other.
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The Aphantasia Catch-22: How Theory of Mind Creates Systemic Epistemic Erasure
Implications for cognitive science, AI ethics, and social epistemology, challenging foundational assumptions about how we understand one another.