[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Sep 1 11:32:49 PDT 2007


My memory of this material is weak so perhaps someone else can redo this more accurately.

A bird hides a bit of food in place X while another bird is watching, but pretends to hide it in place y.

A second bird pretends not to watch while the deception is going on, but actually has seen the real hiding place.

The second bird shows "mind-reading" in the sense needed here. That is, it acts according to a conception of the purposes of the first bird.

There was some lengthy research published on this someplace recently, & I think I read a report on it in Science News. But as I said, this is too sloppy but maybe it will remind someone else of a decent source with more accurate information.

Carrol



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