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Monday, November 5, 2007 12:00 AM

I feel your pain

New proof of "mirror neurons" explains why we experience the grief and joy of others, and maybe why humans are altruistic. But don't call us Gandhi yet.

By Gordy Slack

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Sunday, November 4, 2007 09:53 PM

Neurons or love: your choice

Whether mirror neurons are a metaphor for empathy, create it or merely reflect it, the one thing that emerges from this article that in humainty, empahy has reached an evolutionary zenity. Whteher it is a metaphor or a physical reality, this qual;ity which lies at the heart of what a human is has another name: love

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And please n ote one crusicial aspect of empathy illustrated by the failure of the writer to act on his feelings for woman in the subway. He chose not to act. Lo0ve, more than any other human act, is act of FREE WILL>

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