Abstract
This chapter considers the theory of the mind, and discusses the issue whether an individual has any representation of other individual's inner worlds. It discusses whether an individual's behaviour can be interpreted as that individual's inner world. The chapter enumerates six capacities to analyze the cognitive abilities or animals and children. These are: the inner world, the theory of emotion, theory of attention, theory of intention, theory of others' minds, and self-consciousness. Animals' emotion is compared to humans. The chapter mentions two types of attention in this chapter — second-order attention and joint attention. It also states that intentions are those hidden variables in the minds of other agents that can be used to explain their behaviour. One way to test whether an animal has a theory of others' minds would be to find out whether they understand what others know. A form of deception is the Machiavellian intelligence.
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