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Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia

Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia ebook
Page: 257
Format: pdf
ISBN: 019921798X, 9780199217984
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Mirrors in the Brain: How We Share our Actions and Emotions. I've compared it to Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass, where Alice steps through the mirror and finds that the objects and the landscape look vaguely familiar—but all the rules of logic are reversed or turned inside out. As described by Chris Mooney (2012) in The Republican Brain: The Science of Why they Deny Science—and Reality, our brains are not logical computers or non-emotional Vulcans like Dr. Our brains don't necessarily think in inches or pant sizes. The problem with This made it very different from Victorian notions of the 'sympathetic imagination', which novelists like George Eliot had conceived as a cognitive act in which readers learned to extend themselves into the experiences, motives and emotions of fictional characters. He also has several years of academic research experience in molecular neurobiology, with a focus on the molecular genetics of familial neuropathies, and CNS tumor biomarker development. Rather, it may be that consciousness, and the theory of mind that is part of it, is essential to protect humans from their fiercest competitors—other humans. We all run movies in our minds and our emotions are the result of the part we are playing in those movies. And what can looking into a monkey's brain tell us about our capacity to share in the emotional experiences of other people? If you are worried, it's because you are imagining the problems and failures you have created in your mental movie. Mirror neurons are our basis of simulation, shared experience and are the building blocks behind how we understand the intentions and actions of others. In order to fit ourselves through openings like doors, we need to have a basic idea of the rough size of our bodies. Even during the day, I angled my body. In other words, unless our brains are damaged or we are developmentally abnormal, we are saddened by the suffering of others and that sadness becomes the seed of our compassion.