I have chilli pain, and to go with it some thoughts about seeing people from the outside and seeing myself from the inside – I was reading an article about reading emotions in other people (with thanks to twicezero) and it struck that I recognise more of that deficiency than I would like in myself:
“The idea is that the mirror neuron systems of [some] individuals are somehow impaired or deficient, and that the resulting “mind-blindness” prevents them from simulating the experiences of others. For [these] individuals, experience is more observed than lived, and the emotional undercurrents that govern so much of our human behavior are inaccessible. They guess the mental states of others through explicit theorizing, but the end result is a list — mechanical and impersonal — of actions, gestures and expressions void of motive, intent, or emotion”
To some extent at least I’ve learned to live with that, at least understanding that I don’t understand. But then I started wondering about what I’m projecting, what emotions are others reading in me? Are they whats actually on the inside? Or is it not possible for me to project unless I can read them too?
On a less introspective note I was pleasantly surprised to see my baby given such a prominent role in the Hitchhikers film – indeed a good film, far better than I had expected and some nice changes to the storyline too, I liked the characters even though they were very different from those I had in my mind when I read the book.
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