2007-01-11
Self-Awareness and Mirror Neurons
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran suggests in Edge 1.8.07 that mirror neurons may be responsible for our sense of self-awareness.
Many neuroscientists believe that mirror neurons are key to understanding the human ability to imitate behavior, which writers such as Susan Blackmore believe may be the source of human culture and the mechanism behind meme replication.
Background: Ramachandran was a presenter at the psychedelic conference Mind States IV in Berkeley / 2003. At that conference he spoke about synesthesia as a possible component to human creativity and art. (see his 2003 Scientific American article).
Categories: mirror neurons, self-awareness, neuroscience
Many neuroscientists believe that mirror neurons are key to understanding the human ability to imitate behavior, which writers such as Susan Blackmore believe may be the source of human culture and the mechanism behind meme replication.
Background: Ramachandran was a presenter at the psychedelic conference Mind States IV in Berkeley / 2003. At that conference he spoke about synesthesia as a possible component to human creativity and art. (see his 2003 Scientific American article).
Categories: mirror neurons, self-awareness, neuroscience
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