 How might a Simulation Theorist respond to this objection? As we said in  section 4,  Gordon’s (1986, 1995, 1996) Radical Simulationism does not assign any role to introspection in mindreading. Rather, Gordon proposes that self-ascriptions are guided by ascent routines through which we answer the question “Do I believe that p?” by answering the lower-order question “Is it the case that p?” Carruthers (1996, 2011) thinks that this won’t do either. Here is one of the many problems that Carruthers raises for this suggestion—we can call it “The Scope Problem”: 