Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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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?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=96&e=2&u=/space/20050427/sc_space/scientistssayeveryonecanreadminds

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.

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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.”

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