 Those that advocate a direct account of our knowledge of other minds are faced with the following question: does their account entail a rejection of the asymmetry that philosophers have identified between knowledge of one’s own and another’s mind (see  §1)?  Some philosophers who propose a direct account would insist that they can still allow for an asymmetry here, just so long as we are careful how we understand  it.[11]  They believe that we must be careful not to understand the asymmetry here as committing us to a picture of mind as lying behind behavior. One alternative to this picture can be found in the work of Merleau-Ponty who writes, 