The dark side of thinking through other minds

Sander Van de Cruys; Francis Heylighen

doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002796

The dark side of thinking through other minds

Sander Van de Cruys, Francis Heylighen

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We show that TTOM has a lot to offer for the study of the evolution of cultures, but that this also brings to the fore the dark implications of TTOM, unexposed in Veissière et al. Those implications lead us to move beyond meme-centered or an organism-centered concept of fitness based on free-energy minimization, toward a social system-centered view.

Original language	English
Article number	E116
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	43
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002796
Publication status	Published - 28 May 2020

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Predictive coding
social cognition

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