Mental World
We are embedded in the mental world of others just as we are embedded in the physical world. What we are currently doing and thinking is molded by whomever we are interacting with. But this is not how we experience ourselves. We experience ourselves as agents with minds of our own. This is the final illusion created by our brains.
By making models of the minds of others (in the same way that it makes models of the physical world), my brain enables me to enter a shared mental world.
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