'Social mirror theory' holds that we cannot have mirrors in the mind unless there are mirrors in society. Human play and performance supports an elaborate networking of internal states, from physiology to fantasy, and from unconscious to conscious mentation. Our unique ability to live in shared imagined and imaginary worlds depends on play and the skills we learn in play. Such communization of experience, which both generates and depends on social trust, is essential to modern human culture, and has obvious implications for human 'mindreading' abilities. Research in this area suggests that, if we could not share inner experience, we would not know we were having it.
Artwork; Mierle Laderman Ukeles; The Social Mirror, 1983- Miror installations at New York Renovation Truck
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