I appreciate the noting of the "little simulator", though I'm disappointed that there was only a brief mention of it in this and it didn't expand on degrees of simulation development, integration and reliance upon it to function among subjects. I have not encountered this ability brought up in any discussions I've seen that relate to this topic. Perhaps I've not been reading the proper papers and discussions. All that I've spoken with about it and who I've tried to describe it to are not able to comprehend it at all - they merely dismiss the entire concept outright as just being what they call "daydreaming". Perhaps low-level simulation or basic imagination usage can be thought of as daydreaming. They can't grasp the complete sensory integration into the simulation to where you appear to "shut off" for one or maybe a few seconds while simulating, or understand the 'distant glassy-eyed stare' while focus is internalized. They make statements that children or people are "in their own world" or "marching to a different drummer" or whatever they come up with to explain away their high IQ and exceptional ability to delve deeply or fully into thought. They cannot 'imagine' the degree to which the simulation can be developed to where it can be core to every thought, every interaction or every experience that can conceivably be had where every potential interaction or experience is preceded with hundreds and even thousands of potential scenarios being simulated for every conceivable response that someone might have to something that is said or done, or how others might interact with each other and how their interactions cascade with each development being simulated ahead of time. This can be why many can seem 'fake' or not genuine with their emotions or actions at times. They've already experienced the exact situation previously and fully in their simulation, so it kind of has to be recalled and all of the simulations sorted through to designate the simulation that had the proper response to make that would be best for the situation and then "re-enact" it from the simulation, which can also be accompanied by that distant look as that specific simulation is being re-run in the mind parallel to it being enacted - which is another level of simulating. Even recalling memories can be fully simulated with full spatial and sensory insertion from any viewpoint to where memories are more accurately recalled and more 'real' than when it actually happened. Let alone recalling of the memory, but from another participant's perspective, or to modify the memory as a simulation within the simulation and inserting a participant or additional variable that wasn't present in reality to simulate how the event could have resulted differently or how it might have affected other people if it were them that experienced the situation. With enough datapoints any event, situation, location or even any individual can be accurately simulated or damn near enough to where it might as well have been an actual experience.