Mirror neurons

You know what mirror neurons are? They are things that causes you to feel what another person feels. Mirror neurons work like when you see someone eating a lemon, you kind of taste the vinegar, without eating it yourself. You are trying to experience what the other person experiences. If you hear someone scream, you immediately try to feel why the other is screaming, for example an awful scream for help. That definitely triggers something, right? It looks like these neurons work when you are seeing or hearing someone.

But i think we underestimate these neurons. I think we can activate those neurons ourselves, without any interaction with an other person. You don't have to see or hear anything to activate these things. Let me explain why I think that is. And maybe you're with me on this.

Don't you have that experience when you are working on a problem and you are kind of trapped into it? And when you ask someone to help you, you come up with the solution all by yourself, only by explaining what you are doing? I think at that moment, we kind of triggered those neurons ourselves. It must because you are unconsciously thinking about what the response will be from that other person.

I was working on the previous blog about talking magic. About having interaction with someone and how that results in more brain activity. But there is more happening than just talking. I wanted to point that out in this blog.

Maybe we can think of an science experiment to proof that this is true. If I figured out how to do that I'll come back to you on that. And of course if I'm proven wrong here, I'll delete this post.

Talking is magic

Over and over again I realize that talking has got some magic in it.

yesterday morning I was sitting in the train. There were people talking about the notify broadcasting voice saying at which station the train will stop next. I noticed for a few months now, in fact everybody who is riding this train knows, that the announcement for the next station is way too early. And the same thing happens in the opposite direction.
I don't know if you've noticed a pattern here, but for that several months I didn't. Apparently my brain stops evaluating any further. And there is no need to think of it any further, so it kind of stops combining facts. If you ask me, I think it's a good idea to stop right there. Otherwise it's maybe causing an overload.
But then the magic begins! I started to talk to these people, while they where laughing about this error and that the company should do something about that. I said that they probably know that the same thing is happening in the opposite direction. They agreed and wondered if it also happens at the following stations. Right there it came to me. From that moment I think I figured out what is going on.
There are obviously two GPS points on the route which triggers the announcements. One for back and one for forth. Presumably they switched those coordinates. The one for forth is meant for back and the one for back is meant for forth. And it would be a good guess that the whole route is switched. If it is switched back, it makes perfectly sense and the announcements are right on time.

The thing is that I was not triggered to think any further. My brains thought they had just about enough information. But when I started to talk and got some feedback, it kind of moved forward across this barrier.
So there you got the magic of talking!