From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Arghh - forgot the 'husband' at the end

'a Democrat was questioning her husband'

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> Or those opposed to the Bushies could be high level empaths and actually
> know that the Bushies are out to get us
>
> I didn't think Alito's wife getting emotional was staged. Any Rove-ian
> influenced staging  would have properly trained her to only shed tears
> when a Democrat was questioning her 
>
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>> Simulation theory could explain why democrats are constantly projecting
>> duplicitous, unethical, and staged solely for the camera of public
>> opinion
>> behaviors upon Republicans.  They are looking at the outward behaviors of
>> Republicans but then modeling that which they see with their own brain
>> and
>> how their own brain works.  Presto, Judge Alito's wife crying becomes a
>> staged and highly planned event of a cold and calculating mind desperate
>> for
>> power, because that's the model of the world for themselves in the
>> recesses
>> of their own mind.
>>
>> Excellent.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>>> Actually it appears everyone can
>>>
>>> http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050427_mind_readers.html
>>>
>>> Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds
>>> Empathy allows us to feel the emotions of others, to identify and
>> understand
>>> their feelings and motives and see things from their perspective. How we
>>> generate empathy remains a subject of intense debate in cognitive
>>> science.
>>>
>>> Some scientists now believe they may have finally discovered its root.
>> We're
>>> all essentially mind readers, they say.
>>>
>>> The idea has been slow to gain acceptance, but evidence is mounting.
>>>
>>> Mirror neurons
>>>
>>> In 1996, three neuroscientists were probing the brain of a macaque
>>> monkey
>>> when they stumbled across a curious cluster of cells in the premotor
>> cortex,
>>> an area of the brain responsible for planning movements. The cluster of
>>> cells fired not only when the monkey performed an action, but likewise
>> when
>>> the monkey saw the same action performed by someone else. The cells
>>> responded the same way whether the monkey reached out to grasp a peanut,
>> or
>>> merely watched in envy as another monkey or a human did.
>>>
>>> Because the cells reflected the actions that the monkey observed in
>> others,
>>> the neuroscientists named them "mirror neurons."
>>>
>>> Later experiments confirmed the existence of mirror neurons in humans
>>> and
>>> revealed another surprise. In addition to mirroring actions, the cells
>>> reflected sensations and emotions.
>>>
>>> "Mirror neurons suggest that we pretend to be in another
person's mental
>>> shoes," says Marco Iacoboni, a neuroscientist at the University of
>>> California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. "In fact, with mirror
>>> neurons
>> we
>>> do not have to pretend, we practically are in another person's
mind."
>>>
>>> Since their discovery, mirror neurons have been implicated in a broad
>> range
>>> of phenomena, including certain mental disorders. Mirror neurons may
>>> help
>>> cognitive scientists explain how children develop a theory of mind
>>> (ToM),
>>> which is a child's understanding that others have minds similar to their
>>> own. Doing so may help shed light on autism, in which this type of
>>> understanding is often missing.
>>>
>>> Theory theory
>>>
>>> Over the years, cognitive scientists have come up with a number of
>> theories
>>> to explain how ToM develops. The "theory theory" and
"simulation theory"
>> are
>>> currently two of the most popular.
>>>
>>> Theory theory describes children as budding social scientists. The idea
>>> is
>>> that children collect evidence -- in the form of gestures and
>> expressions --
>>> and use their everyday understanding of people to develop theories that
>>> explain and predict the mental state of people they come in contact
>>> with.
>>>
>>> Vittorio Gallese, a neuroscientist at the University of Parma in Italy
>>> and
>>> one of original discovers of mirror neurons, has another name for this
>>> theory: he calls it the "Vulcan Approach," in honor
of the Star Trek
>>> protagonist Spock, who belonged to an alien race called the Vulcans who
>>> suppressed their emotions in favor of logic. Spock was often unable to
>>> understand the emotions that underlie human behavior.
>>>
>>> Gallese himself prefers simulation theory over this Vulcan approach.
>>>
>>> Natural mind readers
>>>
>>> Simulation theory states that we are natural mind readers. We place
>>> ourselves in another person's "mental shoes," and
use our own mind as a
>>> model for theirs.
>>>
>>> Gallese contends that when we interact with someone, we do more than
>>> just
>>> observe the other person's behavior. He believes we create internal
>>> representations of their actions, sensations and emotions within
>> ourselves,
>>> as if we are the ones that are moving, sensing and feeling.
>>>
>>> Many scientists believe that mirror neurons embody the predictions of
>>> simulation theory. "We share with others not only the way
they normally
>> act
>>> or subjectively experience emotions and sensations, but also the neural
>>> circuits enabling those same actions, emotions and sensations: the
>>> mirror
>>> neuron systems," Gallese told LiveScience.
>>>
>>> Gallese points out, however, that the two theories are not mutually
>>> exclusive. If the mirror neuron system is defective or damaged, and our
>>> ability to empathize is lost, the observe-and-guess method of theory
>> theory
>>> may be the only option left. Some scientists suspect this is what
>>> happens
>> in
>>> autistic people, whose mental disorder prevents them from understanding
>> the
>>> intentions and motives of others.
>>>
>>> Tests underway
>>>
>>> The idea is that the mirror neuron systems of autistic individuals are
>>> somehow impaired or deficient, and that the resulting
"mind-blindness"
>>> prevents them from simulating the experiences of others. For autistic
>>> individuals, experience is more observed than lived, and the emotional
>>> undercurrents that govern so much of our human behavior are
>>> inaccessible.
>>> They guess the mental states of others through explicit theorizing, but
>> the
>>> end result is a list -- mechanical and impersonal -- of actions,
>>> gestures
>>> and expressions void of motive, intent, or emotion.
>>>
>>> Several labs are now testing the hypothesis that autistic individuals
>>> have
>> a
>>> mirror neuron deficit and cannot simulate the mental states of others.
>>>
>>> One recent experiment by Hugo Theoret and colleagues at the University
>>> of
>>> Montreal showed that mirror neurons normally active during the
>>> observation
>>> of hand movements in non-autistic individuals are silent in those who
>>> have
>>> autism.
>>>
>>> "You either simulate with mirror neurons, or the mental
states of others
>> are
>>> completely precluded to you," said Iacoboni.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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