[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sun Sep 2 11:35:15 PDT 2007


Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
>> Cats and dogs, not just hoidy-toidy
>> gorillas, appear to have empathy.
>
> I have something like 45 cat-years of experience (having lived with 2
> for 20 years, and 1 for 5), and I've never seen a trace of empathy in
> them. They are consummate narcissists, which, as Freud theorized, is
> part of their charm (like children and criminals).
>
> Doug

Yeah, same experience living about 35 human-years with cats. One day in my kitchen I dropped a large pickle jar on my big toe. I howled in agony. The cat looked up from her food bowl because of the noise and then nonchalantly went back to her food.

Miles



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