Thursday, October 22, 2015
Mirror Cells
In the "I feel for you. really" article the author, Albert Nerenberg speaks about how we can mirror the feelings of others like their happiness, anger, sadness, and fear. If he were to have a conversation with the author Robert Wright who wrote "Why Cant We All Just Get Along?" I feel he would agree with Joshua Greene who was also incorporated in Wrights article. They would agree on how humans can mirror the emotions of others, which can explain why when it comes to the trolley experiment no one would push a single person because they could be mirroring the fear of the person they are about to push in front of the trolley. Although they would probably disagree on how Nerenberg say that sociopaths and psychopaths don't posses the same ability because they didn't grow up with the ability to empath with others but Greene thinks that it would be possible to be compassionate for any human. Greene doesn't really mention how people can redevelop the ability to empath or mirror others but nerenberg says it cant be taught but that that it has to be caught in the moment of empathic interaction. They would both believe that it is possible for people to be cooperative but it is still competitive at this moment since there are those who lack that ability to empath with others.
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If Joshua Greene joined the conversation i think him and the author of "I feel you, really" Albert Nerenberg, would have some very interesting conversations. They both have some what of the same idea just in different concepts. I think Jackie has a perfect example that Greene was implying that we would mirror fear of the person they are about to push the save everyone else, and that is why most people would want to not physically push the person but to pull the lever or to not do anything at all.
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