Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds

[CalMeacham]

Not from the Golbe this time, but from Yahoo. This is the tantalizing title of an article now online:


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...necanreadminds



The article, while interesting, doesn't live up to the title's implications. Good thing, too. I'm not sure I'd want Pepper Mill to know exactly what's going through my mind.

[Spatial Rift 47]

Interesting ideas, and one that fits perfectly into the framework of existing neurology, psychology, and sociology without raising even a hint of new age weirdness. All it really amounts to is "we're a heckuva lot more empathetic than we realized."

[Corii]

That's fascinating, I wonder if people who are diagnosed as psychopathic use those "mirror neurons" or not.