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belgareth
04-28-2005, 11:57 AM
Interesting phenomena
but also has huge implications for seduction..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/scientistssayeveryonecanreadminds;_ylt=AvYGwy6t3ak VjLf6WH62DL6s
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DrSmellThis
04-28-2005, 01:07 PM
Fantastic article.
The
only thing I would question is their calling them "mirror neurons", when they might well be the same "average kind"
of neurons being activated in response to sensory cues about another's mental state.
belgareth
04-28-2005, 01:11 PM
I see their point. From the
description they were a seperate cluster of cells performing an independent action. Some label had to be applied to
differentiate them.
DrSmellThis
04-28-2005, 02:21 PM
If the situation was
different, or the content being mirrored was different; might you see a different cluster of cells?
belgareth
04-29-2005, 05:10 AM
That's a good question but I
didn't see anything on it in the articles. They may have not gone that far yet.
DrSmellThis
04-29-2005, 12:47 PM
That's all I'm saying.
But I've long believed something like this about empathy; because of the unbelievable richness of interpersonal
sensory cues and the universality of human emotion and experience. This will focus the scientific community more on
what is happening, which is a great thing.
"Interpersonal resonance" (a term I'm using for the general case
under which empathy falls, a sort of gut level shared experience studied by phenomenologists. It's not really about
empathy, per se, which is a specifically emotional resonance.) is the primary immediate purpose of human
communication, IMO. So this is a hugely important topic for several fields. Smells and pheromones obviously play an
important role in this process.
So obviously I think you are correct about there being implications for
seduction.
CptKipling
04-29-2005, 03:41 PM
From what I know, at least with
motor neurons, they are in fact the same neurones that would otherwise be firing to cause movement.
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