Finding #3: Peak responses to illness inferences are adjacent to but separate from peak responses to mental state inferences (i.e., theory of mind reasoning), suggesting a neural mind/body distinction. 5/

Finding #2: We observed a parallel effect for mechanical causal inferences. A semantic network previously implicated in thinking about inanimate objects (i.e., places; anterior PPA), is sensitive to causal inferences about mechanical breakdown. 4/

Finding #1: A semantic network previously implicated in thinking about animate entities (e.g., people, animals; precuneus) is sensitive to causal inferences about illness. This effect is observed across individual-subject fROI and group analyses. 3/