May 22, This is like chicken and egg lol. Probably a draw since they can both see the same thing. The person seeing the future avoids all losses Person reading minds can also see the future since he's reading the guy who sees the future's mind. If not, dm me and I will tell it. Log In or Join. Forums Hot Topics. Most Recent. Losing connection during games at Chess. JamieDelarosa 10 min ago. I am a noob and I don't know how to play chess: MelvinGarvey 12 min ago.
TheHarbingerOfDoom 12 min ago. I just realized I won the prize in chesskid grand swiss AunTheKnight 25 min ago. Theory theory describes children as budding social scientists. The idea is that children collect evidence -- in the form of gestures and expressions -- and use their everyday understanding of people to develop theories that explain and predict the mental state of people they come in contact with.
Vittorio Gallese, a neuroscientist at the University of Parma in Italy and one of original discovers of mirror neurons, has another name for this theory: he calls it the "Vulcan Approach," in honor of the Star Trek protagonist Spock, who belonged to an alien race called the Vulcans who suppressed their emotions in favor of logic.
Spock was often unable to understand the emotions that underlie human behavior. Simulation theory states that we are natural mind readers. We place ourselves in another person's "mental shoes," and use our own mind as a model for theirs. Gallese contends that when we interact with someone, we do more than just observe the other person's behavior. He believes we create internal representations of their actions, sensations and emotions within ourselves, as if we are the ones that are moving, sensing and feeling.
Many scientists believe that mirror neurons embody the predictions of simulation theory. Gallese points out, however, that the two theories are not mutually exclusive. If the mirror neuron system is defective or damaged, and our ability to empathize is lost, the observe-and-guess method of theory theory may be the only option left.
In recent years, a fast growing understanding of how our nervous system works has enabled a fusion between man and machine, once only envisioned in science fiction, to become a reality. Bionic limbs have been built into amputees, scientists are beginning to restore a sense of touch to these patients, and we are on our way to restoring vision in the blind. In other news, the first human head transplant may happen in just a few years. With over billion neurons, understanding the human brain and how our experiences are represented by neurons is, to say the least, no easy feat.
Although we have an understanding of the major brain structures and their functions, individual neural connections greatly differ from person to person, being altered by activity and learning — which makes the idea of mind reading seem even more difficult to achieve. However, a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI , electroencephalography EEG and lesion studies have helped in giving us a better idea of what some of our experiences look like in the brain — even at the level of individual cells.
These studies have given us important insights into how a range of our experiences are translated by the brain into sensations and planned action. Many other studies have pinpointed neuron-specific functions in the human brain, for example, neurons that respond specifically to seeing edges and lines of different orientations.
In , researchers even pinned down a specific neuron in a patient with its activity levels tied to Halle Berry. Pictures of the actress, her caricature, images of her as Catwoman, and even reading her name elicited a response from this neuron. In this study, each participant had approximately electrodes implanted into their brain — not exactly an everyday scenario for the volunteers! The question is, can results from such studies be reliably extrapolated to real life scenarios, where we are experiencing a range of emotions and interactions, and a continuous stream of images and sounds?
This obstacle was highlighted in a study led by Jack Gallant and his team at the University of California, Berkeley. More recently, in , Josef Parvizi and his team at Stanford University were able to locate the population of neurons that are active specifically when we think about numbers in real life scenarios.
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