On Vox: Why do we know things?

I have posted a few comments here about mirror neurons, those neurons that help us imitate, sympathize with and anticipate what people are doing or going to do. I believe these mirror neurons have a lot do with language learning. Something happened to me this morning that made me think of mirror neurons. I was riding in a car and the person driving the car ahead of us stopped and signaled that she was going to turn right. She was about 10 metres from the intersection and just beside a parked car. There was a parking space behind the parked car. I instantly, almost instinctively, knew that she was signaling because she wanted to back up and park, not because she wanted to turn right. How did I know that? How was I able to anticipate what she wanted to do? I believe that my mirror neurons told me. They were acting out what was going to happen based on my experience of watching people drive, and driving myself. Certainly I was not born with some innate set of driving instructions.

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