Cells That Read Minds
By Sandra Blakeslee January 18, 2006, The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/science/10mirr.html?incamp=article_popular

By the time we finished reading this article our mirror neurons were firing on all cylinders and were so over stimulated that we weren't sure if we should

1) shake, rattle, and roll
2) bang a gong and get it on
3) walk like an egyptian
4) or be the wind beneath your wings

And then... we remembered our Neuro 101! - Neurons don't actually sing or dance or think or feel - individual neurons - even super-duper mirror neurons - either fire action potentials or they don't. Now we know that writing about neurons like they are little people with their own thoughts and actions pulling the strings that make we people-puppets do what we do is just a journalistic invention - still it makes us a little squemish. Wait...could it be these feelings are simply the jealous reactions of our squirm neurons? Well, maybe when everyone else understands it - so will we.