The Art Of Reading Minds Vk
Tommie
Often, knowing our own mind and motivations is challenging enough, let alone the minds of strangers or even relatives, friends, or partners. In relationships, many people make the critical mental mistake of overestimating a partner or family member's ability to read their own thoughts, assuming that anyone who knows them well should also know what they think or feel, even if they haven't said it out loud.
In science fiction stories, mind reading is routinely used for nefarious purposes. In the real world, having a clear sense of what others think and feel helps us avoid conflict and miscommunication and strengthen personal relationships.
Even the most socially adept individuals routinely misread other people's emotions because of their own biases, cultural tendencies, or situational factors, such as not realizing someone who appears to have been crying may only have seasonal allergies. A greater knowledge of how others display their feelings, and, equally importantly, how our minds and bodies respond to the feelings of others, can help improve people-reading skills.
These difficulties likely have roots in multiple areas of the brain; some research has pointed to atypical activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region of the brain which plays a role in emotion, moral decisions, and social evaluation.
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It is not quite as 'reading minds'. The TV drama series "Lie to me" was my my first introduction to the concept of micro-expression. Sadly because it is a TV drama series, I am unable to convince my husband that there can be any truth in this "science". "They can say whatever they want", he reasons. True. But then I found out about Paul Ekman, the real life person on whom "Lie to me" was based. Another TV drama series reinforced my interests; "The Mentalist", in which the lead character often analysed a person based on so many things and deduced some conclusions. The lead character who was reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes and his methods. It fascinated me even more. Around the time I watched these series I completed a coaching course offered in the City University of London. I was taught about three 'M's of listening in this course.
It slowly started working on me that at times the world would go slow, and I was able to ask myself, what other things I can see from this person. This served to stop the constant chattering happening within myself, which is the third M in the 3 'M's in coaching, that is the 'Me-talking'. What made me take it a little more serious about observing micro-expressions was that it improved my listening abilities. it made me pause, observe and take note of what the person in front of me is conveying to me.
I decided to properly learn a bit about this micro-expression. I went straight to Paul Ekman's site for the training module. As in all subjects, especially as it is reading others expressions, it takes a while to begin to get things right. Especially when one cannot confirm the results by asking the other person, whom we might have been "reading" with or without their knowledge, mostly without their knowledge. Also it takes a bit of experience to pause and start observing, without breaking the normal conversation.
The other thing I have read about this "micro-expression" is that people cannot hide it, including the experienced ones. As the experts often say, it will "leak" in some form or other, mostly through the body language. Prof. Clark Freshman, a Professor of Law, an expert in Negotiation, Lie Detection and Emotions in his two part encounter with a TV series (Part 1 and Part 2) explains that the body language will leak in some form. It is in Part 2. I do have a suspicion that the presenter may be acting a bit. :-)
Once we start observing people, one will also find it interesting to see an emerging pattern of certain personalities and their body languages. As the saying "throwing toys out of the pram", it was interesting to observe that some big egoistic narcissistic people have toddler-like body languages. See below for a toddler-like body language: (Photo-editing was not performed by me).
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Research in psychology has suggested that reading fiction can improve individuals' social-cognitive abilities. Findings from neuroscience show that reading and social cognition both recruit the default network, a network which is known to support our capacity to simulate hypothetical scenes, spaces and mental states. The current research tests the hypothesis that fiction reading enhances social cognition because it serves to exercise the default subnetwork involved in theory of mind. While undergoing functional neuroimaging, participants read literary passages that differed along two dimensions: (i) vivid vs abstract and (ii) social vs non-social. Analyses revealed distinct subnetworks of the default network respond to the two dimensions of interest: the medial temporal lobe subnetwork responded preferentially to vivid passages, with or without social content; the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) subnetwork responded preferentially to passages with social and abstract content. Analyses also demonstrated that participants who read fiction most often also showed the strongest social cognition performance. Finally, mediation analysis showed that activity in the dmPFC subnetwork in response to the social content mediated this relation, suggesting that the simulation of social content in fiction plays a role in fiction's ability to enhance readers' social cognition.
Knowing all of these thoughts could drive you insane, be distracting and are also an invasion of privacy. What if someone is thinking about a disturbing thought that you do not want to know? It was private to them and they did not know that you would be listening in. People would have to censor their thoughts, so not only would we have to censor what we sometimes say, but we would possibly have to censor what goes on in our own mind.
If we could know what people are thinking, would we need to have a conversation with them? Is there really any reason that you need to talk to someone to get to know them? It depends on the depth to which you can learn their thoughts, but that can still defeat the purpose of conversation. One of the great things about friendship and relationships is that you always have things to learn about the other person. The ability to read minds would kill that.
Different studies have been conducted to further the research on this theory. Brian Pasley, a neuroscientist at the University of California at Berkeley and some of his colleagues studied fifteen neurosurgical patients with epilepsy. They attached electrodes to the surface of their brains to find the source of their seizures. Participants listened to about 50 different real and fake sentence and word speech sounds.
The person who can read minds can just see into what the guy seeing the future is thinking. So he/she can also see the future kind of. They'd both be thinking the exact same way so I think it'd be a draw.
But what if the person who can see the future lacks chess skill, and the person who can read minds is filled with bad ideas? Furthermore, if the person who can read minds doesn't know how to play chess, then I would say anyone could win. But if we look at it in a case where both chess players are advanced chess players, the person who would be able to see the future could see the end result, therefore the person who reads minds would see the end result also. Ultimately, both people wouldn't even have to play the game to know who won.
Figure 7. Schematic summary of the results: compared to non-viewpoint markers, perceptual viewpoint markers were skipped more often, whereas cognitive and emotional viewpoint markers were skipped less often. Egocentric Intrusion and STOMP score decreased skip rate overall, and IRI Perspective Taking score increased skip rate overall, and for perceptual viewpoint markers specifically. Compared to non-viewpoint markers, perceptual viewpoint markers were fixated shorter, whereas cognitive and emotional viewpoint markers were fixated longer. STOMP score and ART score decreased gaze durations overall. Compared to non-viewpoint markers, perceptual viewpoint markers did not differ in terms of rereading rate, whereas cognitive and emotional viewpoint markers were reread more often. ART score increased rereading rate overall, and Egocentric Intrusion increased rereading rate for cognitive viewpoint markers specifically.
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In this passage, most English translations say "knowing their thoughts". In the footnote it says "perceiving" their thoughts. I feel like this is a pretty monumental difference as perceiving thoughts is something anyone can do but knowing thoughts, in the sense of reading someone's mind, is a purely divine ability.
ἰδών is a participle declined in the aorist tense, active voice, nominative case, masculine gender, and singular number. It is derived from the aorist tense verb εἶδον.
εἰδώς is a participle declined in the perfect tense, active voice, nominative case, masculine gender, and singular number. It is derived from the perfect tense verb οἶδα.
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