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[glen]

Just to follow up:

Human cortical representations for reaching: mirror neurons for execution, observation, and imagery
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2045689/

Functional anatomy of execution, mental simulation, observation, and verb generation of actions: A meta‐analysis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6872039/

Cortical activity during motor execution, motor imagery, and imagery-based online feedback
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0913697107

Primary Motor and Sensory Cortex Activation during Motor Performance and Motor Imagery: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/16/23/7688.full.pdf

It's funny. When I read such documents, I have to make a concerted effort to read words like "mental" with charity. Obviously, it has no crisp meaning. Yet everyone speaks as if it does ... kinda like reading science fiction or learning a foreign language.

On 2/17/23 08:11, glen wrote:
> I've had trouble finding the research lately. But there's evidence that when we imagine spinning, say, a ball around its axis, there's a lot of overlap with the neural structures that fire in our brain as when we're actually spinning a ball with our hand. That's body stuff. Even if my "imagining" seems entirely within the bounds of my skull, it's still body stuff. It's still tool-mediated, even if the mediation occurs longitudinally, through time/training. I just have no idea what you guys mean by "mental stuff".


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