[lbo-talk] Mirror neurons (Warning: contains seriouslytechnical philosophy of language and mind)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 6 09:44:58 PDT 2007


--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:


>
> If Helen Keller fell in the forest, would she make a
> noise?
>

Only after she learned language.

Y'know, I'm thinking that since Mountain Gorillas are animals that you can teach language to, it doesn't seem it would be all that hard to figure out this empathy issue with them. You could, like, ask. :)

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