[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

[Miles Jackson]

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