[Buddha-l] Mirror neurons, anyone?

[Franz Metcalf]

Steve et al.,

Thanks for mentioning Siegel again and sharing a few of your notes.

Siegel's notion of learning attunement through exercising our mirror  
neurons strikes me as the neurological equivalent of what attachment  
theorists and object relations psychologists say is the fundamental  
process of becoming fully human. Of course they call it by different  
names and see it as an interpersonal process grounded in the  
relationship of the maternal object and the infant. I see it this way,  
myself. So it is fascinating to me to read of this neuropsychological  
parallel process. But of course this is how things ought to be: the  
neurological, the internal, and the interpersonal are three dimensions  
of what is essentially one process, no?

Does Siegel talk about attachment theory? People like Alan Fonagy (who  
calls this process "mentalization")? In any case, I plainly must read  
Siegel's work.

Oh, and, um, Buddhism. Very important.

Franz Metcalf