5th November
2007
if mirror neuron theorists are right, the advantages of directly understanding others may be so great that it blows the evolutionary cost of occasional self-sacrifice out of the water. What’s selected for might be the ability to imitate others, and to understand and feel what they are feeling. Self-sacrifice and altruism might be mere byproducts of mirroring and not themselves adaptive in a way selected for by evolution
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mirror neurons fire both when a person is in action, and when he or she observes someone else engaged in the same action
Lacan:
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/psychoanalysis/definitions/mirrorstage.html