V.S. Ramachandran: “The discovery of mirror neurons in the frontal lobes of
monkeys, and their potential relevance to human brain
evolution — which I speculate on in this essay — is the
single most important “unreported” (or at least,
unpublicized) story of the decade. I predict that mirror
neurons will do for psychology what DNA did for
biology: they will provide a unifying framework and help
explain a host of mental abilities that have hitherto
remained mysterious and inaccessible to experiments.” To my read, an intriguing but overreaching theory. Good to see they intend to empirically test some elements. [Edge]
