Antonio Damasio & Kaspar Meyer write in Nature 454, 167-168 (10 July 2008) "Convergence–Divergence Zones" (CDZs) – (‘mirror neurons’) that mirror neurons act not so much as "mirrors" but "more like puppet masters, pulling the strings of various memories."
The authors are dealing with neurons and brains, my allegory deals with thought and minds: not quite same, right?
