[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

[Carrol Cox]

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