ABSTRACT
Cognitive science, especially in the standard model, is focused on showing how the brain, as a computer-like thing, can come to perform recognized human acts, such as speech. The idea of the Background, of the tacit–explicit distinction, and questions about innateness and modularization are all closely associated with the problem of cognitive speed. If one claims that concepts are part of some sort of innate and distinctively human semantic endowment, and also that the theory of mind was part of this uniquely human endowment, one can no longer give the fact that humans can solve the false belief problem as evidence. The results also undermine the neat distinction between two systems: one corresponding to verbal, elicitable content, something which looks more like a "theory" or a matter of "folk psychology", and a mere capacity shared with apes, and perhaps even with much of the rest of the animal kingdom.
