[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Sun Sep 2 13:06:12 PDT 2007


On 2 Sep, 2007, at 14:56 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> Let's be clear here: Empathy is not a behavior. Empathy is a
> psychological state of understanding the psychological experience of
> another entity. The problem here with all the examples you provide is
> that you're not directly observing "empathy"; you're observing
> behaviors...

So, kidding aside, since behavioural observations are out when it comes to evidence, how does one directly observe "psychological states"?

--ravi



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