[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

[Chris Doss]

--- 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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