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April 28, 2005
Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds
Now when you read a story titled something like this you never know what to expect. It's actually very interesting scientists have discovered that people have a part of their brain that literally experiences things that other people are experiencing. This section of the brain which they are calling the mirror neutrons, mirror the reaction if you do a behavior yourself or if you see someone else do it. This explains how children may learn our behaviors. I'm a bit uncomfortable because I don't feel that they are addressing adequately the fact that we don't all share the same experiences. Ultimately what it is to be human is pretty consistent across the species, but there are things that happen when you get into the higher brain functions that aren't based on what we are anymore. For example, I completely lack the ability to empathize with a right wing ideology, I can't understand anything about where they are coming from, yet I can easily understand just about every other human based experience in existence. Also the link they made to Autism is interesting. Their brain scans show that these mirror neutrons aren't functioning in people who have Autism and it would explain the utter lack of coping behavior we see in this group. Which leads me back to my long standing belif that since I can't understand right wingers they must be broken on some mental level and need to be cured as quickly as we can develop the science to do it.
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Posted by ManDrake at April 28, 2005 6:54 PM
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