ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 explored the widely held view that the many different levels at which the mind might be studied form a hierarchy, with our commonsense psychological understanding of ourselves and others at the top. But we have not yet gone into much detail about what commonsense psychology actually is. This chapter explores two competing and very different conceptions of commonsense psychology, one associated with the picture of the autonomous mind and the other with the picture of the functional mind. These different conceptions lead to two very different ways of responding to the interface problem.
