I love belko61 wrote:
They should call it Guessing. How can anyone do anything but guess without asking questions. And if you have context there is no theory involved. The inconsistencies revolve around the examples I've often read. Ranging from stupidly basic to so what?. Maybe I just don't like being subjective, preferring first hand knowledge before I make assumptions. I do make snap judgements all the time but it's a matter of "odds are" and not truths.
Well the guessing is not about things like coin flips, or how fast an object falls in a vacuum . Its about how other humans are acting or thinking. That requires a person to (consciously or not) construct a model of the other person's mind inside their own mind. A lot of that in turn ends up you projecting yourself onto others, rightly or wrongly. Supposedly autistics are bad at theory of mind. Maybe they project their own autistic minds on to NTs. Or maybe autistics are just plain bad at it with anyone. The former is more often the case IMHO. Autistics are bad at TOM with NTs but not with their own. But I digress.
Monkeys in Thailand will extort food from tourists by taking your stuff and holding it for ransom. The monkey will swipe your sunglasses, or your hat, and keep until you give them a snack, and then they will give it back to you. So the monkeys have a certain "theory of mind" about humans that serves them well.