[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 1 08:49:59 PDT 2007


--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> Empathy is the ability to understand what another
> entity is thinking
> and feeling. I've never come across a nonhuman
> animal that
> demonstrates this ability

Haven't you ever owned a dog?

In fact, I'm not sure what would count
> as empathy in an
> organism that I can't talk to. How could we
> determine what a chicken
> or a dog thinks about what one of its peers is
> thinking and feeling?

How do you determine what a person whose language you don't speak is thinking and feeling? Or, say, Helen Keller pre-acquisition of language?

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