Is it possible we can extend empathy to the entire human race? This is a great video - you can listen to it, but there's also some great drawings that illustrate the lecture. We have to be able to imagine empathy in the entire human race in order to create it. This is based on research and technology developed in the last decade. Please watch or ( Read more... )

I'm listening to the audio book "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore. He talks in the first chapter about the new information about how the brain works. People can have traumatic memories from stories told to them from people they trust. There are brain cells that elicit the empathy emotion which acts upon these stories and helps to create these ( Read more... )