Yes, but that to what degree of fidelity? You also have special hardware to simulate objects. The question is one of fidelity and I understood the example thus. After all his analogy wasn't between emotions and objects but between amount of emotion and number of objects.

I don't know enough to say much, but I am wary about any speculation that glosses over social cognition as a very special kind of imagination that can seem identical to the other kind of imagination if you don't know that they happen in different places anatomically. It seems to make it harder to believe that any analogies will hold.

Yes, but that doesn't strike at the core of the matter, namely to what degree "you have no idea how I feel!" can be true.

I meant to link this to the part of the article that says that can feel like a challenge. Sometimes things feel like a challenge because someone's started counting points instead of writing down facts. Now that I reread it though, it doesn't seem like he was being very serious about the feeling of challenge. It probably means my original comment seemed less relevant than I thought it did.