mirror neurons & memes?

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 11:00:03 GMT

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: mirror neurons & memes?
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    Hiya everyone,

    I saw an article yesterday (in 'New Scientist', 27/1/01, 'Read My Mind', by
    Alison Motluk, pp: 23-26) about 'mirror neurons'.

    Have these been discussed before on the list?

    Basically these are neurons in the brain that fire when we watch other
    people doing things, and monkeys have them in a region of the brain
    approximating Broca's area in human brains. Researchers reckon these
    neurons could be the key to humans' theory of mind. The article cites a
    couple of recent academic articles, and this talk from VS Ramachandran from
    a little while ago:-

    > http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge69.html
    >
    From the tone of these pieces, maybe internalist memetics has its smoking
    gun after all...

    Vincent
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