Why do so many people make a big deal about the discovery of mirror neurons? Shouldn't they have been obvious ex ante?
If I can copy you, _some_ part of my brain has to know that your action and my copy are "the same."
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don't mirror neurons also fire when we use metaphors? E.g., when I grasp a cup and also when I ask you if you grasp the idea?
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they better! (i mean, that also seems obvious ex ante.)
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I think people were surprised at which level this was happening. Lower level than many thought
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"lower" in the hierarchy of brain regions?
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if I can recite facts, some part of my brain must know those facts. therefore we must have fact neurons
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