Not a big fan of ascribing things to the "mirror neural network." We don't really know what it does, but it's popular to ascribe almost everything to it, from compassion to reasoning skills to language.
There is abundant evidence of what it does, we just don't know how MNS works. I find it an elegant explanation for how organisms learn from observation and experience and thereby are able to re-experience the same chemical reactions merely from watching the behavior of others. Empathy.
That's not exactly an explanation. Usually an explanation is a longer, more detailed description of the thing it's trying to explain, not shorter and less detailed.
Did you read more detailed findings and explanations? I have and the MNS seems no longer speculative. Functional evidence is abundant. Functional how is still mysterious. https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/16/9/1276/276307
I am glad you did. It gave me a chance to post the Oxford research link. In context of "meaning", the MNS may well be the fundamental area of commonly shared brain functions and chemical production evoking shared "emotional" response behaviors. If I watch you hit your thumb with a hammer, my body reacts as if the hammer is striking my thumb and that emotional response creates my reflexive "cringing" in mock pain as if I personally am experiencing the blow. That chemical reaction producing the empathic response must also be the seat for shared experiences of "meaning". Meaning; "pain hurts", "love makes you feel good", "everybody likes sweets or chocolate". It all means a shared fundamental physical chemical response system (a common denominator) to certain impressive (traumatic) events, which are simultaneously mirrored by all. Mass hysteria at a score in a football game is but one example. It is the lure of rooting for a hero. When he wins, we all win at the same time. At least that's how we feel....in perfect reflective and reflexive union with other minds...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! A true empathic sexual intercourse can provide the highest state of ecstacy in both. The porno industry relies on the MNS for mass sales of sexually provocative films....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Interestingly, this mirror response is already found in the paramecium during mating, the only time they remain still, without automotor movement. Simply put, they "forget" to swim....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! If we throw "symmetry" into the mix of fundamental Mirroring functions in nature, we are going deep into the symmetric pattern forming structure (or function) of spacetime, IMO. Mirroring suggests a perfect reflective duality to the universal aspect of "information sharing." It's elegant and efficient!...Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
A natural word is a word that describes an object and only that object . what ever it is , assuming they have come across a glacier in the first place . Any more the an amazon tribe has a word for snow .
What's natural about that? Was it around before humans invented it? I'd be interested in finding a word that only describes one thing. Glacier is not such a word.
but in your post # 73 is this an example of inherent meaning ? I don't think so . inherent meaning is a meaning inwhich its meaning has an original origin not some abstraction example from the original meaning .
Now you're just making sh*t up. WHY is it "natural"? What makes it any more "natural" than any other word? Er... photos from the early 1990s show the Taushiro children playing in the snow. Note: Taushiro: also known as Pinche or Pinchi, is a nearly extinct possible language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon near Ecuador.
don't know why any word in any language is used to describe anything . A mountain is a mountain, in any language , not a tree , water etc it is an interesting thread