According to the simulationist approach, individuals derive judgments about the mental states of others by using analogy from the mental states they believe they would have in comparable situations, and then use these judgments as inputs for their own decision-making processes run offline to predict the behavior of others.

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  Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

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• mental states concept
• decision-making processes concept