Comments on: You and Your Mirror Neurons

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:18:47 +0000

Nothing’s conclusive, ofcourse. It’s just a very elegant explanation.

I love that it goes some way to explaining Csikszentmihalyi’s “flow”, and even makes a connection with autism.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:53:52 +0000

Definitely one of the more tantalizing discoveries lately, and one that maps very directly to baisc day-to-day experience. (Feeling the pain when you others get hurt and so on.) Perhaps Ramachandran is a bit over the top?

I predict that mirror neurons will do for psychology what DNA did for biology: they will provide a unifying framework and help explain a host of mental abilities that have hitherto remained mysterious and inaccessible to experiments.

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:28:15 +0000

I’ve been nuts about mirror neurons since Isaac Barry pointed that article out on his blog. Definately go and read it if you have time!

The internalization of witnessed systemic behaviour is the basis of our ability to strategize. And mirror neurons might be an explanation for that. Great stuff!

By: Corvus

Corvus — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:39:03 +0000

I’ve discussed this in the past as well. I started a post about the existence of mirror neurons actually getting in the way of our ability to learn valuable lessons (based on an interesting food/toy acquisition study I heard about), but it started to sound too much like a “games as killing instructors” argument, so I tabled it until I found a better hook.