and now for something entirely different

The rise and rise of the neurosciences and their slow but steady drip into educational thinking, at least at a gestural level has been something I have been trying to keep an eye on over the years. But today I stumbled on a piece that, at the very least, provides some interesting insights into possible relationships between the social and learning.

It's an Edge essay by V.S.Ramachandran called Mirror Neurons and the Brain in the Vat. If you have time on your hands or on some other part of your body, might be worth a glance.