From: Mark Mills (mmills@htcomp.net)
Date: Wed 17 May 2006 - 13:44:47 GMT
Hello Derek,
>Nobody knows where instincts are encoded
>(presumably in the brain somewhere),
Though the term 'instincts' is a grab-bag for lumping together
unknowns, the work on mirror-neurons suggest a physical site for at
least one subset of the class 'instinct'.
We also know a significant subset of those exhibiting autism, a
behavioral disfunction of one's ability to mimic (among other
things), also exhibit lower levels of activity in the brain areas
containing mirror-neurons.
Mark
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