Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Building an Empathic Civilization

Jeremy Rifkin explores the implications of empathy in our society as an artist animates his talk.  He discusses (very quickly) evolutionary psychology, mirror neurons, and Y-Chromosome Adam in this talk.  If we can feel what others are feeling, then we should remember such emotions when dealing with others.  Let's build an empathetic society- basing our behavior on the Golden Rule.

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