Ep. 30 – Peak Mind with Amishi Jha, PhD
Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern
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Is There a Neuroscientific Basis for Empathy?
Is there a neuroscientific basis for empathy? Does the brain have empathy? Is it circuitry built into it? Yeah. Is that mirror neurons? Is that what those are? I mean, that's a debate and that's not really my area, but there are definitely people that are studying both the sort of cognitive and emotional aspects of empathy with compassion. And when there's tension between the two, then we're getting down to something juicy.
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