This would be like asking, "what if Jack put it in the car?" and the response is, "but Jack put it behind the tree." Which is what you would get if someone could not understand a hypothetical.
Theory of mind and arguing a hypothetical are not the same thing.
No, but it seems to me that the only way to make that response is to not be able to have Theory of Mind. Theory of Mind requires you to be able to create an abstraction that represents a different view. Theory Of Mind is about whether or not the subject has the capacity for creating and then personifying an abstraction. A hypothetical still requires the capacity to abstract. If you can't abstract, you can't have Theory of Mind.
If you can't form a hypothetical scenario, we couldn't even test the scenario. They aren't literally showing people moving bread in the woods. They are starting with a hypothetical: "Imagine two people are having a picnic in the woods."
If someone didn't understand hypotheticals, they might respond with: "But we're not in the woods."
Without the capacity for hypotheticals, we can't even test Theory of Mind. Not only are we saying "this woman doesn't have the cognitive capacity of a 5 year old", we're saying she has far less than that. We're not talking about someone with sub standard IQ, we're talking about someone who is so developmentally disabled that they have nearly single digit IQs. We've entered the region of non-human animal intelligence.
Not to mention that if you watch longer parts of the conversation, she uses hypotheticals herself in order to deflect from the conversation; so obviously she can understand hypotheticals. She's just being dishonest.
Your example is not a hypothetical.
This would be like asking, "what if Jack put it in the car?" and the response is, "but Jack put it behind the tree." Which is what you would get if someone could not understand a hypothetical.
Theory of mind and arguing a hypothetical are not the same thing.
No, but it seems to me that the only way to make that response is to not be able to have Theory of Mind. Theory of Mind requires you to be able to create an abstraction that represents a different view. Theory Of Mind is about whether or not the subject has the capacity for creating and then personifying an abstraction. A hypothetical still requires the capacity to abstract. If you can't abstract, you can't have Theory of Mind.
If you can't form a hypothetical scenario, we couldn't even test the scenario. They aren't literally showing people moving bread in the woods. They are starting with a hypothetical: "Imagine two people are having a picnic in the woods."
If someone didn't understand hypotheticals, they might respond with: "But we're not in the woods."
Without the capacity for hypotheticals, we can't even test Theory of Mind. Not only are we saying "this woman doesn't have the cognitive capacity of a 5 year old", we're saying she has far less than that. We're not talking about someone with sub standard IQ, we're talking about someone who is so developmentally disabled that they have nearly single digit IQs. We've entered the region of non-human animal intelligence.
Not to mention that if you watch longer parts of the conversation, she uses hypotheticals herself in order to deflect from the conversation; so obviously she can understand hypotheticals. She's just being dishonest.