Philosopher's disease and its antidote: Perspectives from prenatal behavior and contagious yawning and laughing
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x16001254
Abstract: Abstract Accounts of behavior, including imitation, often suffer from philosopher's disease: the unnecessary, inappropriate, theoretically driven explanation of behavior in terms of cognition, rationality, and consciousness. Embryos are perversely unphilosophical and unpsychological, starting to move… read more here.
Keywords: yawning laughing; philosopher disease; contagious yawning; perspectives prenatal ... See more keywords