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I did not get the message. Maybe the internets have a clog.

• xlnt 18y ago
  I wrote: I'm sorry, I can't talk to you, my mail client says you're a spammer. Do you think this is an accurate statement about mirror neurons? http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p2.html http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran/ramachandran_p2... Anytime you watch someone else doing something (or even starting to do something), the corresponding mirror neuron might fire in your brain, thereby allowing you to "read" and understand another's intentions, and thus to develop a sophisticated "theory of other minds." And this from the next page? Denying [one's own] paralysis is odd enough but why would a patient deny another patient's paralysis? We suggest that this bizarre observation is best understood in terms of damage to Rizzolatti's mirror neurons. It's as if anytime you want to make a judgement about someone else's movements you have to run a VR (virtual reality) simulation of the corresponding movements in your own brain and without mirror neurons you cannot do this.
  • LPTS 18y ago
    The first one is trivially true because of the word 'might' The second one I think is true and an extremely elegant solution for a bizarre neurological phenomena. And critiquing Ramachandran's neurology on the basis of an epistemology ignorant of neuroscience seems a lot like critiquing Newton's physics on the basis of an astrology ignorant of astronomy. (this is hard for me to admit, my training is as a philosopher).
    • xlnt 18y ago
      I've replied by email. Hopefully you'll receive it.
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