Empathy
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The Importance of Empathy
A lot of people have a basic misunderstanding of the brain, self and other. My mirror neurons in the regions associated for pain light up when I see another person in pain. That doesn't mean that I'm feeling their pain. And one thing that we need to be very clear about is that even in cases where we see somebody else let's say stub their toe and feel pain. We don't actually feel pain in our toe in the same way that we wouldn't if we had actually stopped our toe.
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