Extraordinary movie: Buck
The theme is that we hurt others because we hurt ourselves. It is a beautiful illustration of mirror neurons: internal hurting and external hurting are both using the same circuitry. If we can't tame it inside, we'll try outside. But it is, the same thing.
I have written the above very carefully, to give you opportunity to experiment now in the first person what I am talking about. Take the phrase above "we hurt ourselves." As you can perceive, it is ambiguous. Does that mean that we consider that we are somehow acting at self hurting ("WE hurt ourselves") or that something unspoken hurts us ("we hurt OURSELVES").
That ambiguity between we-as-agents and we-as-recipients in that one sentence is triggered by the mirror neurons mechanism. Mirror neurons trigger both action and reaction. In technical terms, the syntax represents the conduit (the mirror neurons) and the semantics represent the effect (action or reaction)?
This is, by the way, also a new and wonderful account of the relationship of syntax and semantics. I need to ponder some more on that.
Bertrand du Castel
The theme is that we hurt others because we hurt ourselves. It is a beautiful illustration of mirror neurons: internal hurting and external hurting are both using the same circuitry. If we can't tame it inside, we'll try outside. But it is, the same thing.
I have written the above very carefully, to give you opportunity to experiment now in the first person what I am talking about. Take the phrase above "we hurt ourselves." As you can perceive, it is ambiguous. Does that mean that we consider that we are somehow acting at self hurting ("WE hurt ourselves") or that something unspoken hurts us ("we hurt OURSELVES").
That ambiguity between we-as-agents and we-as-recipients in that one sentence is triggered by the mirror neurons mechanism. Mirror neurons trigger both action and reaction. In technical terms, the syntax represents the conduit (the mirror neurons) and the semantics represent the effect (action or reaction)?
This is, by the way, also a new and wonderful account of the relationship of syntax and semantics. I need to ponder some more on that.
Bertrand du Castel
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