From: "Mark" 

CBS-NY chopped up their coverage to make it look like Graham caused it too
-- I presume your local coverage did the same?

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> 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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