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| | Consider the source: The evolution of adaptations for decoupling and metarepresentation |
 | | decouple the aspects of the organizational domain that are irrelevant or noncongruent from being processed by the adaptation as true or relevant for its development (e.g., although my father chases me, my father is not a predator with respect to me). |
 | | The goal S-representation is decoupled from semantic memory, tagged with a source, attitude, and time scope, suspends truth relations for the goal content (but not reference), and has a ground and subordinate level such that inferences are applied to only one level at a time. |
 | | The purpose of decoupling is to allow one to represent false beliefs, fictions, and not-yet-existing states of affairs separately from the database of true propositions stored in semantic memory. |
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