Mirror Neurons, Prediction and Hemispheric Coordination: The Prioritizing of Intersubjectivity Over ‘Intrasubjectivity’

Abstract

We observe that approaches to intersubjectivity, involving mirror neurons and involving emulation and prediction, have eclipsed discussion of those same mechanisms for achieving coordination between the two hemispheres of the human brain. We explore some of the implications of the suggestion that the mutual modelling of the two situated hemispheres (each hemisphere 'second guessing' the other) is a productive place to start in understanding the phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of cognition and of intersubjectivity.

Functional neural network for decision processing, a racing network of programmable neurons with fuzzy logic where the target operating model relies on the network itself

“…However, in human society a decision is expected to be made in terms of a simplistic yes or no. This extreme bipolarity is quite challenging and can throw light onto what researchers have called the mirror neuron system in the learning process especially in action observation and action execution (Shillcock, Thomas, and Bailes 2019; Zhang et al 2018), which could be playing a significant role in human decision making process such as in the case of moral dilemma (Christov-Moore, Conway, and Iacoboni 2017). This observation makes the invention of a novel neural network architecture with the insight of the human mirror neuron system (Kilroy and Aziz-Zadeh 2017), a keen step towards understanding the central nervous system and computing artificial intelligence.…”

A modern materialist approach to abstraction, concreteness, and explanation in cognition

“…A materialist analysis develops all of these arguments to claim that the hemisphere is the relevant concrete universal in the domain of wider cognition (Shillcock et al 2019). A single hemisphere is substantially capable of doing anything that a whole brain can do – its activities characterize the whole domain of the cognizing brain.…”