Monday, January 4, 2010

mirror neurons

When you see someone move their arm, the neurons for moving your own arm fire in your brain.

The implications of this for language and consciousness: we hear words and feel what the other person feels when they say the words to themselves.

Does this mean we our conscious of ourselves in the same way we are conscious of the feelings of others? That we feel what it is like to feel like ourselves!

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