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Lo specchio della trasparenza. La metafora come strumento concettuale tra scienza e cultura e il caso dei neuroni specchio (The mirror of transparency. A metaphor as conceptual tool relating science and culture: mirror neurons)
Journal Title:  RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA
Author/s: Giulia Frezza
Year: 2012 Issue: 1 Language: IT
Pages: 12 Fulltext PDF:1522 KB
DOI: 10.3280/RSF2012-001008
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Abstract:
In questo articolo si esamina l’ipotesi visuo-motoria del "mirror neuron mechanism", mostrando come in essa lo "specchio" venga usato metaforicamente per dar conto di un riconoscimento immediato e trasparente dell’azione altrui. Al contrario, nell’analisi che qui viene offerta della cultura dello "specchio", all’intersezione di filosofia, letteratura e psicologia, il tema del riconoscimento dell’altro emerge come non-lineare, ma problematico e intermittente. È proprio nella "metafora dello specchio", dunque, oggetto culturale e ordinario, che possiamo ritrovare esemplificate tali questioni che invece l’ipotesi neuroscientifica dei neuroni specchio sembrava rimuovere con il suo approccio lineare. La metafora pertanto, lungi dall’impedire intellegibilità, è uno strumento epistemologico centrale per portare in luce la continua e complessa interazione fra esperienza comune, cultura e scienza.

The author examines the visual-motor hypothesis of the "mirror neuron mechanism", and highlights how the word "mirror" is metaphorically used in this field to account for an instantaneous and evident recognition of the action performed by others. In contrast, in the present analysis - focused on the intersection between philosophy, literature and psychology - the "culture of the mirror", as "recognition of the other", appears non-linear, problematic and intermittent. It is precisely in the "metaphor of the mirror", a current commonplace cultural object, that one finds examples of the process of recognition, that the neuroscientific hypothesis of the mirror neuron mechanism seems to elude through its linear approach. A metaphor, far from obstructing intelligibility, should be a basic epistemological tool to bring to light the continuous and complex interactions between everyday experience, culture and science.
Keywords: Mirror neurons, metaphor, metaphor and science, interaction, recognition.
 
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