I agree about the forest part. and your comment was interesting.

I know that the part of the brain responsible for the self thoughts is called the "default mode network". and meditation can reduce it's activity, i.e. the internal monologue stops, but also it can be measured via FMRI.

So i wondered: are the mirror neurons part of the "default mode network"? I asked claude that, he said no, they are two different systems.

So maybe the mirror neurons, those responsible for empathy, "to feel as someone else" are also responsible for becoming the trees, the birds and the rushing of the leaves?