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TheOtherDave comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, December 2010 - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: David_Gerard 06 December 2010 02:29PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 10 December 2010 04:29:48PM 4 points [-]

Complete randomness that seemed appropriate for an open thread: I just noticed the blog post header on the OvercomingBias summary: "Ban Mirror Cells"

Which, it turned out when I read it, is about chirality, but which I had parsed as talking about mirror neurons, and the notion of wanting to ban mirror neurons struck me as delightfully absurd: "Darned mirror neurons! If I wanted to trigger the same cognitive events in response to doing something as in response to seeing it done by others, I'd join a commune! Darned kids, get off my lawn!"