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Lastly, this paper took a while to get out, and is substantially clearer and better as a result. Thanks to the reviewers, mentors and colleagues who engaged with us. Thanks to @jennrichler.bsky.social for your editorial contributions.

This paper also got us thinking about the nature and interrelations of other cognitive domains, which led to this fun workshop: sites.google.com/view/cogsci2...

First, our minds and brains represent the bodies of agents as objects, and their actions as physical events. Second, using someone's actions to work out their mental states often requires accounting for their physical constraints (what someone is in a position to do or know; the cost of doing X).

Thinking about the mind & thinking about the physical world engage distinct cognitive and neural resources. Even babies have different expectations for agents and objects! Yet, we argue that these two systems interact in at least two ways...

Lucy! Congratulations 🎈🎉🎊