What are you thinking? The question requires awareness of others' thoughts and beliefs, termed a theory of mind. For the first episode of "the science ramble", we look at what that entails, and how a recent study (linked below) begins to explain it at the level of single cells in the human brain.

Further resources

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The study described in this episode: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03184-0

A blog article about mirror neurons, a different type of neurons involved in interactions with other: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/mirror-neurons-quarter-century-new-light-new-cracks/

A philosophical encyclopedia article about theory of mind: https://iep.utm.edu/theomind/