notes-cog-theoryOfMind

http://philosophyandpsychology.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/a-quick-thought-on-the-difference-between-folk-psychology-and-metarepresentation/ notes that when discussing the question of whether non-human animals have a 'theory of mind', that animals may be predicting what other animals can do using behavioralist thinking, e.g. "when it does X in the past, and then Y happens, it is likely to do Z", without explicitly thinking in terms like "It believes Y, and it wants X, so it is likely to do Z".