detect one's own states. The men know that they are all in pain. The privacy of the mind does not entail the logical impossibility of mindreading. Nonetheless, the men do not detect the pain sensation in others in the same way that they detect pain in themselves. Mental states are private in the sense that one has a direct access to one's own mental states that nobody else has. There is an asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other minds." /> Knowing other people's mental states as if they were one's own - de Vignemont Frédérique | sdvig press