beings unless we assume that other people had minds as we do. We interpret their behavior in terms of their beliefs and desires. From there it may be a short step to attribute minds to entities that aren't other human beings, such as to trees and rivers and the wind, in which case we call it animism. We attribute minds to inanimate entities, to our own artifacts, in which case we call it idolatry. Or to no hunk of matter in particular, in which we call it ... in case we call it spiritualism. Disembodied souls and spirits and father-like entities that don't have any material existence,