RE: mirror neurons & memes?

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 15:04:30 GMT

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: mirror neurons & memes?
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:04:30 -0000
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    > > >From the tone of these pieces, maybe internalist memetics has its
    > smoking
    > >> gun after all...
    >
            <I don't think so! OK, so I haven't read it yet, but from what you
    say
    > here they're talking about empathy/imitation, which we already know
    > has to be innate for _any_ form of memetics to work. There's a world
    > of difference between identifying a neural mechanism for imitation,
    > and identifying the neural representation of a particular imitated item.>
    >
            Yes these piece do talk about empathy and imitation, so you may be
    right.
            But their findings apparently suggest that the firing of these
    neurons is very specific indeed in relation to specific behaviours, with
    even very similar behaviours stimulating different sets of neurons.

            Vincent

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