#268 - The Limits of Self-Knowledge
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The Mirror Neuron and the Self
There's this sense that our sense of our representation of ourselves in social space and in the world is of a piece with our concrete representation of others as others right. This really indelible sense of self and other emerges together kind of a single cognitive brushstroke, he says. It does seem intuitive to me that we're doing something quite similar when we're representing other minds and reflecting on our own I think there seems to be a lot of circumstantial evidence surrounding that linkage it's really hard to pin it down according to him. The research thus far has been somewhat skeptical of just how much has been made of the mirror neuron research but it certainly seems that there is a kind of self
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