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News Briefs 11-1-06

Lysergy has been doing the rounds. Post your thoughts.

  • Indian scientist challenges Einstein’s Relativity.
  • There is an inevitable temptation to massage results in the race for scientific status.
  • Milky Way has a cannibalizing nature.
  • A world without race.
  • Psychologists are better stock market speculators than economists.
  • No genes from the West for India, and possibly no language either.
  • Iran breaks seals on nuclear facility.
  • Hitler had nukes.
  • Cells that read minds.
  • Symbols on wall push Maya writing back by years.
  • The message of Valles Marineris.
  • New moons and rings found around Uranus.
  • American Jewish academic says historian Irving should be released.
  • It’s the demography, stupid.
  • Are newspapers doomed?
  • Just how far should scholars go in debunking intellectual opponents?
  • Day One: the war with Iran.
  • Unscientific methods.
  • The mysterious fire-starting hotspot.
  • What’s all that grey matter good for anyway?
  • The power of Mozart.
  • St. Michael’s apparition, earthquake linked.
  • Technohype bites back.
  • Desktop fusion is back on the table.
  • What a long, strange trip.

Quote of the Day:


Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Seneca

  1. Cells that don’t read minds
    A couple of excerpts first, so you’ll understand my comment even if you haven’t read the article yet…

    “When you see me pull my arm back, as if to throw the ball, you also have in your brain a copy of what I am doing and it helps you understand my goal. Because of mirror neurons, you can read my intentions. You know what I am going to do next.”

    “…while many people with autism can identify an emotional expression, like sadness, on another person’s face, or imitate sad looks with their own faces, they do not feel the emotional significance of the imitated emotion. From observing other people, they do not know what it feels like to be sad, angry, disgusted or surprised.”

    “Psychotherapists are understandably enthralled by the discovery of mirror neurons…because they provide a possible neurobiological basis for the psychological mechanisms known as transference and countertransference. In transference, clients “transfer” feelings about important figures in their lives onto a therapist. Similarly, in countertransference, a therapist’s reactions to a client are shaped by the therapist’s own earlier relationships.”

    I’m surprised that none of the experts who were quoted seem to have added up this information with regard to projection (erroneously attributing one’s own motives to others) and other similar errors, such as attributing false motives to people in the present, based on what other people have done in the past (like a newly adopted, formerly abused pet who still flinches every time it’s new, kind owner reaches out to pet it). Obviously, some of these mirror cells don’t do a very good job of ‘reading minds’ that are unlike those previously encountered.

    Kat

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