Brain Disturbances, Mirror Neurons, Osama and Obama
“A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another.”
In a “paper [presenting] a conceptual framework that integrates findings from recent studies of the neurobiological effects of childhood abuse and exposure to domestic violence on brain structure and function … with epidemiologic data from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study.”, it was found that “The likelihood of disturbances in any given function or behavior such as … aggression would have a cumulative or “dose-response” relationship to the number of ACEs, theoretically paralleling the total exposure of the developing central nervous system to the activated stress response during childhood (http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/2009/6/anda_abuse.pdf).”
President Barack Obama on 60 Minutes recently spoke representatively of the American central nervous system in its yet one more act of extra-judicial aggression: “As nervous as I was about this entire process, the one factor I didn’t lose sleep over was the potential of taking Bin Laden out. Justice was done. And I think that anyone who would query that the perpetrator of mass murder on American soil didn’t deserve what he received needs to have their head examined.”
Indeed. And why David Livingston Smith calls humans “the most dangerous animal” (http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/why-war-most-dangerous-animal-by-david.php) in our "mirror neuron" imitations of violence from time immemorial – in need of much more head (and heart!) examination!
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