Lincoln, the stuck pig and mirror neurons

[Gene C]

(04-24-2015 09:38 AM)Juan Marrero Wrote:  One-hundred sixty years later or so, neurologists are studying "mirror neurons" contained in the cells of the frontal lobe. Some posit that a super-abundance of these makes people hyper-sensitive to the suffering of others; and, conversly, a deficit would result in the kind of person who could do nasty things to others without a second look. If this be the case, it speaks to the heroic efforts that Lincoln made to conduct a war that must have devastated him emotionally.

Which may be a reason Lincoln selected Stanton for his Secretary of War. Lincoln used Stanton to do things that needed to be done, that he could not , or had great difficulty, bring himself to do.