# CPP Visually Perceiving Intentions of Others handout **Opening (not a real abstract):** The paper’s thesis: Typical humans sometimes visually perceive the intentions of others. The argument for the paper’s thesis: (1) The typical subject who views a typical chasing scene represents the chased object as fleeing the chasing object, i.e., as proximally intending to evade the chaser. (2) There is initial reason to think this ‘fleeing’ mental state is visual. o The ‘fleeing’ state depends on low-level visual features like movement and direction o The ‘fleeing’ state is generated: quickly, without felt effort, and apparently unmediated by inference (3) There is initial reason to think the ‘fleeing’ mental state is a non-visual, postperceptual thought, and more particularly a System 1 output. o The ‘fleeing’ state is generated: quickly, without felt effort, and apparently unmediated by inference (as are System 1 outputs) **Authors:** [[Grace Helton]]