The judge reasoned that providing a fingerprint was akin to giving a key, while giving a passcode — stored in one's mind — entailed revealing knowledge and therefore testifying.
Humans have a "theory of mind," which entails recognising that others have mental states and being able to "read" these, so that we can understand others, ponder what they are thinking about us, show empathy toward them, and predict their behaviour to a certain extent.
Further evaluation of this argument will be taken up further below, but it is worth noting here that if (as experiments on the attribution of false beliefs suggest) young children before the age of four years typically lack a theory of mind, Carruthers' view entails that they are not sentient either — fear of needles notwithstanding!
The best-known example of these is the so-called Theory of Mind (ToM), which entails the capacity to take other people's perspective into account [ 28].
The journey through what Pirsig called "the high country of the mind" need not entail outdoor camping or bad coffee.
Most cannot even consider taking nonpaying internships, never mind ones that entail the additional expense of flying to China and maintaining a residence there.
Shakespeare's normalcy is not philistine or easy in his plays, people lose hands, eyes, wives, minds, lives and it entails a conservative obeisance to the common order: he believes in kings, bosses, authority.
Now, nine months after he arrived in Washington, he is embroiled in American-brokered peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians -- an assignment that, like the 1981 raid, entails mind-numbing complexity, daring and the knowledge that some of Israel's friends will not be pleased with the result.
Gopnik ends his piece by discussing Shakespeare's ordinariness, which he sees as one of the keys to his lasting relevance: Shakespeare's normalcy is not philistine or easy in his plays, people lose hands, eyes, wives, minds, lives and it entails a conservative obeisance to the common order: he believes in kings, bosses, authority.
"I ought to return John's gun" (since I promised to return it) and "I ought not to return John's gun" (since he is no longer in his right mind) do not entail "I can both return the gun and not return it".
