Cheerskep wrote: > I think I may "get" Luc's core notion, and it > doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I think he's saying that when we speak, the > other guy hears "our sound", it excites nerve ending in our ears, they > excitations get processed, and notion arises in his mind. Simultaneously the > nerve's action of hearing and processing is affecting neurons in our brain, > and the neurons are changed. Some of us > will remember for the rest of our lives certain lines that > were uttered to us -- i.e. the neuronal rearrangements are effectively > permanent. It's interesting to wonder to what extent the minute > physicalstructure of a neuronal arrangement occasioned in my head by hearing > that Newman is dead is replicated by the "Paul Newman is Dead" neuronal > rearrangement in other people's heads. Exact "mirrors" I'm sure they won't > be, but I wonder if they'll ever be discerned to recognizably close. We do > know that neuronal activity takes place in the > same part of the head for grossly similar notion -- e.g. vision. But the > exact structure of it is still unknown to us
Indeed. To better understand what you just wrote we could look into the mirror neurons (not only for movements but also for emotions and emotional states), and neuroplasticity (what you call neuronal rearrangement.) On the philosophical side we can look into the Theory Theory and the various cognitive theories of self-awareness. Best, Luc www.lucdelannoy.com www.neuroartes.org
