Can the same inferential architecture that supports self-awareness also support inference of others' mental states?

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• Any system that exists will appear to minimize free energy and therefore engage in active inference. Furthermore, this apparently inferential or mindful behaviour is (almost) inevitable.concept0.790
  Friston's key assertion resolving the tautology: existence implies free energy minimization, making inference inevitable.
• all attributions of cognition (i.e., mental actions), including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.quote0.788
  Critical verbatim statement highlighting the universal inference basis of sentience.
• Self-referential processing induces a genuine state shift that transfers to unrelated behavioral domains, producing richer introspection in paradoxical reasoning tasksclaim0.778
  Claim supported by Experiment 4: prior self-referential induction yields higher self-awareness scores on paradoxical reasoning where introspection is only indirectly afforded
• An artificial model replicating mechanisms of self-illusion can test hypotheses and reveal novel affordances for non-human intelligence.hypothesis0.778
  Methodological proposal to integrate knowledge from contemplative and cognitive science into AI/artificial life frameworks.
• Will introspective awareness become more reliable in future AI models?question0.777
  Speculative question about future developments.
• All attributions of cognition, including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.claim0.776
  Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.776
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
• Neural self-other overlap in humans mediates empathy and inversely predicts deceptive behavior, motivating the SOO approach for AIclaim0.773
  Cross-domain analogical claim linking neuroscience findings to AI design