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WHAT DRIVES THE DEEP-POCKETS QUEST TO MAP EMPATHY?
Language posted in an earlier RMN thread (139998) is echoed in a paper published 11 February in the journal called Public Library of Science ONE.
RMN 139998 posted 23 January 2009 (link above and below) included this:
: Extrapolating just a little, we can see the possibility suggested
: that human dna might incline each locator-point of Intelligent Universe
: (focusing in each Ego) to "experience" the experience of other "locators".
: It looks like well-funded scientists are deeply interested in human EMPATHY.
The paper published 11 February is mentioned (and linked) today at physorg.com. Synopsis:
The ability to empathize with others is partially determined by genes, according to new research on mice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).
Echo of 139998: "...share that experience with another..."
"The core of empathy is being able to have an emotional experience and share that experience with another," says UW-Madison graduate student Jules Panksepp, who led the work along with undergraduate QiLiang Chen. "We are basically trying to deconstruct empathy into smaller functional units that make it more accessible to biological research."
Note the query posed in 139998:
: What drives the deep pockets quest to reduce the processes
: of consciousness (Noetic Function) to a mathematical formula?
Opening paragraph in the article over at physorg.com:
In the study, a highly social strain of mice learned to associate a sound played in a specific cage with something negative simply by hearing a mouse in that cage respond with squeaks of distress. A genetically different mouse strain with fewer social tendencies did not learn any connection between the cues and the other mouse's distress, showing that the ability to identify and act on another's emotions may have a genetic basis.
Note this text, paraphrased from above by substituting 'humanesque' for 'mouse':
A genetically different humanesque strain with fewer social tendencies did not learn any connection between the cues and the other humanesque's distress, showing that the ability to identify and act on another's emotions may have a genetic basis.
One may infer from the article a suggestion that those undertaking to map the biology of the trait called empathy may not themselves be from a genetic strain that displays the trait:
In the experiments, one mouse observed as another mouse was placed in a test chamber and trained to associate a 30-second tone with a mild foot shock. Upon experiencing the shock, the test mouse emitted a short distress call or squeak.
Though having no direct knowledge of the foot shock, observers from a very social mouse strain learned from the distress calls to associate the test chamber and tone with something negative. When later placed in the test chamber and presented with the tone, they exhibited clear physiological signs of aversion, such as freezing in place, even though no shock was delivered.
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