Daniel Reidpath

Recognising other minds: the irreducibly inductive problem

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 26, 2026 Daniel Reidpath preprint

Consciousness is a first-person experience, and no one has direct access to another's experience. This generates a problem that precedes the hard problem of David Chalmers. We need to know how to identify the existence of subjective experience in others before we can analyse it. I argue that the attribution of mind is irreducibly inductive. Every method proposed to verify another's...