Mirror Neuron; A Beautiful Unnecessary Concept
Jahan N. Schad

TL;DR
This paper challenges the necessity of mirror neurons by proposing a new theory of vision based on remote sensing, which explains cognitive phenomena traditionally attributed to mirror neurons.
Contribution
It introduces a novel perspective on vision that renders mirror neurons unnecessary, supported by experimental evidence and insights from sensory perception and brain computation.
Findings
Vision perception is fundamentally different from other senses.
Mirror neuron phenomena can be explained by a new theory of vision.
Experimental evidence supports the new vision theory over the mirror neuron hypothesis.
Abstract
The mirror neuron theory that has enjoyed continued validations was developed with no particular attention to the phenomenon of the vision. Understandably the perception of vision has always been thought to happen, naturally, as that for any of the other four senses. However, the reality that underlies this presumption is by no means obvious; vision perception is based on remote sensing of the ecology, fundamentally different form that of the other senses, which have tactile stimulation origin (contact with matter). While its reality, as explicated here, explains why the above presumption is true, it also bears heavily on the mirror neuron theory: the revelation of the nature of vision makes mirror neurons unnecessary. The extensive cognitive neurosciences investigation of primates and humans, over the past three decades, have experimentally validated the theory of mirror neurons which…
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