Mirror Neurons, Morality and Video games

[carlo]

One approach is psycho-physical parallelism in which physical findings and psychic findings go together without attempting to find the connections.

Another approach states that the physical produces a thought, feeling or impetus to action. In this case, which is the most materialistically clear the physical body is the source of all the above. The referenced article(too short and lacking in depth) appears to be in this category but the researchers may look at this differently.

Another look appreciates the soul and states that the body is a "reflector" of thoughts, feelings and emotions. Thoughts are relegated to the nervous system which is not only in the brain but throughout the body. "Will forces" are appreciated within the metabolic-limb system(legs,digestive system) but of course there are "will forces" throughout the body including the brain. "Feelings" are appreciated within the cardio-respiratory system. Becoming short of breath and "untoward feelings" are rightly connected in this case.

Of course there are mixtures of all the above in each system. There are feeling and will impulses in a thought but we are less aware of this fact. Likewise the metabolic-limb system contains thoughts and feelings of which we are not totally aware. And for completion, there are thought and will impulses associated with our feeling system.

To look at it grossly the nervous system is rightly associated with thoughts but there is also a circulatory and digestive portion in the brain which of course is not so evident to ourselves but gross anatomy certainly displays circulation there is some "movement" of circulation and much less so in the nerve which is associated with "will forces".

In short, the "ego" sits without the human being and through the soul receives"reflections" of waking associations via the body.

[Xylem]

Tx Lucky im doing a psychological research proposal on violent video game desensitisation and this may help.