Friday, November 26, 2010

Dissolving the Barrier between You and Other Human Beings

Here is V. S. Ramachandran talking about "empathy neurons" at a 2009 TED conference. Watch the whole video, but if you go to 5:00 you will see the bit about how you can dissolve the difference between yourself and others...



His hypothesis, that these empathic motor neurons gave rise to civilization, is a fascinating one.

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