Babies intuitively read the faces...
... of the people around them, and decide very quickly if they can trust them. To do that, they use mirror neurons.
What was the basis:
The first step must always be to Figure out the layout. We have to analyse what knowledge is available to us, and where and how we can reliably and accurately make connections. That was also my approach. I analysed our ability, our intuition, and made the following conclusions.
- Babies can reliably and accurately read faces, to a surprising degree
- Animals can do the same
- Adolescents are confused and have to fight for the ability
- Adults are constantly mistaken
Babies and animals both have in common that they didn't learn to think, speak, or to use a logical system to categorize peoples character traits, as well as emotions. So it was important to understand their system.
Outcome:
If the prerequisite is that we have not yet learned to think in the conventional way (this conclusion is very rudimentarily formulated, behind it was much more research) then something must be related to it. How do babies perceive people and is there a mechanism that we still have?
- Babies react with their whole body
- They imitate adults
- You react immediately
So there must be (again shown here again very abbreviated) a mechanism in our brain that has enabled us as babies to perceive something precisely and react to it. It was a longer journey that led to Giacomo Rizzolatti’s discovery of mirror neurons. His work could be associated with my discoveries.
