Re: mirror neurons & memes?

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 14:17:07 GMT

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    On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:04:30PM -0000, Vincent Campbell wrote:
    >
    > > > >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.

    Having now read it, I have to say, this looks highly relevant to memetics,
    whatever the implications for the neural meme concept. Everyone on this
    list should read it. Don't know whether it's on the website or not,
    but it would be worth checking -- I think it's www.newscientist.com

    -- 
    Robin Faichney
    robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
    

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