 If right, this would dissolve the issues raised among performance and theater theorists. For rather than being different kinds of human behavior, they would be modeled as the same kind, but with different scope. However this proposal confronts a robust history of thought to the contrary, conflicts with a sizable amount of the common discourses among theater and performance artists themselves, and challenges the leading theory of acting among those philosophers and cognitive scientists who study the phenomena of pretense and imagination, and who either might or do think of acting as pretending rather than as display behavior (Searle 1975; Lewis 1978; Harris et al. 1993; Kavanaugh and Harris 1999; Nicholls and Stitch 2000; Goldstein and Bloom 2011; Brown 2017).