Mirror Neurons (was: What is empathy)
Elliot Temple <[email protected]>
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On Dec 13, 2012, at 2:47 PM, David Deutsch <david.deutsch-LR/[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 Dec 2012, at 10:17, Jean Dutertre <jean_dutertre-1tsiiZ//[email protected]> wrote: > >> empathy is a matter of mirror neurons (see Giacomo Rizzolatti and/or >> Vilayanur Ramachandran) > > But not just mirror neurons, right? (I mean, presumably mirror neurons in vitro would neither experience nor cause any empathy.) > > So, empathy is a matter of mirror neurons plus -- what? Are there mirror neurons in vitro? Or at autopsy? -- Elliot Temple http://beginningofinfinity.com/