Hi, folks. I'm excited to discuss the neuroscience of empathy with you, and to explore the ways in which neurobiological understanding of empathy may inform its deployment in social institutions; along with discussion about the root value of deliberately increasing our net "Empathy Quotient" as a society--what is gained; what is lost?
Here are some readings I'd recommend to form a platform for tomorrow night's conversation. I'm listing them in order of what I think are the most important for creating a common set of concepts for meaningful discussion:
Here are some readings I'd recommend to form a platform for tomorrow night's conversation. I'm listing them in order of what I think are the most important for creating a common set of concepts for meaningful discussion:
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
11/06/opinion/brooks-the- heart-grows-smarter.html - http://loverev.wordpress.com/
2011/10/19/the-scanner-on-the- mount-a-neural-challenge-to- love-thy-enemy/ - http://www.rootsofempathy.org/
- http://www.wired.com/
wiredscience/2011/10/is-the- world-just/ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=l7AWnfFRc7g
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