 Such a transformation would require quarantining some of our own mental states, preferences, and dispositions, inhibiting them so that they do not contaminate our off-line decision-making in the role of the other. Such inhibition of one's own mental states would be cognitively demanding. For that reason, ST predicts that mindreading will be subject to egocentric errors—that is, it predicts that we will often attribute to a target the mental state that we would have if we were in the target’s situation, rather than the state the target is actually in (Goldman 2006). In  section 6.2,  we shall discuss whether this prediction is borne out by the data.