• How Brain’s ‘Mirrors’ Aid Our Social Understanding (p)(f)
  one of the most intriguing theories to emerge in recent years about how our brains perform is that we have neurons that essentially act as mirrors to other people. When we see someone scratch their head or furrow their brow, we instantly have a sense of their mental state because those actions trigger the same patterns of neural activity in our own minds and allow our brains to quickly deduce what mental states are associated with such patterns. Sep 25, 2006 A08
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• Virus of the Mind: Read Introduction Online (p)(f)
  The good news is that the long-awaited scientific theory unifying biology, psychology, and cognitive science is here. An interdisciplinary effort by scientists in all those fields over the last 20 years or so—really back to 1859 and Charles Darwin, if you like—has produced a new science called memetics.
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