  The mirror neuron theory that has enjoyed continued validations was developed
with no particular attention to the phenomenon of the vision. Understandably
the perception of vision has always been thought to happen, naturally, as that
for any of the other four senses. However, the reality that underlies this
presumption is by no means obvious; vision perception is based on remote
sensing of the ecology, fundamentally different form that of the other senses,
which have tactile stimulation origin (contact with matter). While its reality,
as explicated here, explains why the above presumption is true, it also bears
heavily on the mirror neuron theory: the revelation of the nature of vision
makes mirror neurons unnecessary. The extensive cognitive neurosciences
investigation of primates and humans, over the past three decades, have
experimentally validated the theory of mirror neurons which had been put
forward early in the period (1980s and 1990s) based on the results of cognitive
research experiments on the macaque monkeys. Based on further experimental
works, phenomena such as learning, empathy, and some aspects of survival, are
ascribed to the operations of this class of additional neurons. Here I reason
that all the results of the efforts of the proponents of the theory can, not
only find explanation in the context of the new theory of vision but also
provide support for it. This new take of the phenomenon of vision is developed
based on the nature of the experimental methods that have succeeded in
developing some measure of vision for the blinds, and the inferences from the
very likely nature of the computational strategy of the brain. I present
evidence that the mental phenomena, which rendered the claim of the mirror
neurons, are in essence the results of subjects beings variably touched by
their ecology, through the coherent tactile operation of all senses.
