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lamps

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we strongly believe that’s been unifying mechanism allows people to actually

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committed very simple

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level you’re saying there’s a place in my brain

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which whose job it is

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living other people’s minds little other people’s lives

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that’s right

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went down

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them

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but

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and greet actors instinctively know that if they put feeling and drama into their

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bodies

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tight

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had a girl

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defeatist back on week

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will respond interpretive gamut what actors talk experts in he’s using that

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movements to inspire feelings and the people watch

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these are the experts in their system

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yet in terms of social creatures

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removed from your another people’s mind

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at a meeting psychic like to look at the but you’ll get adopt of apostles point

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of view leni padegi anything it’s going to be

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so if you were here on some post connect emotionally

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what about people who have trouble with this kids like christian who has autism

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why do you like us

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spring known for some time that stolen mobile kitchen required total

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hello profile deficit in social obstruction christian constraint and

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read and right

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but like many kids with autism he will ovoid icontact

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he often misunderstands questions

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focusing can you tell me what you things perfect

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daring well

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figuring well they’re really wants to know what exactly causes this

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so doctor robert conference graduate student and shame designed an experiment

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mister

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the record and bring with his mother kids open and close their hands

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and while they look at a movie of somebody else’s hans

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for most people the brain waves look the same either way whether they’re doing or

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c

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but for kids with autism

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the weeds changes

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suggesting possibly autism may have something to do with broken mirror

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neurons

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their brains may indeed be different in that regard

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and they may have deficit in their own system but pillows for short at least

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agreed that if you work has begun

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disagreement

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but what we do know says ramachandran is that healthy human beings are intensely

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social

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more than our cousins the monkeys weekend event ways to connect

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reinvent dances

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and handshakes and games to play

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we eat together

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we meet

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and we talk

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we talked a lot to do i get away with

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evidence in this question what makes him in jamaica

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what makes is different from the great lakes for example

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but who can say schubert relaxing

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wipro

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language succulent

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levels in this culture

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a lot of culture comes from imitation

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watching what you just do something

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and here he s ramachandran makes the beaded leap

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he has proposed that’d be key moment in our revolution this is his guests army

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rainier arms yeah

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and that made all the difference he says because once we humans got better had

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learning from each other looking copying teaching

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we could do things

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the other creatures couldn’t

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in other words people who are out there

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consult on the world environment installed

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unit if you have any risk of developing

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a polar bear club layers of fat

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it would take many many many bigger generations to select

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for rear babes but says ramachandran if you’re a cuban what’s your father

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slaying some of the bath and putting on before court

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you know it’s getting at using that as the court

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you watch it you learn it instantly meron start firing away

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in your brain

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every pop on the same strict looks complicated sequence

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winter instead of going to believe that there’s a revolution you’ve done it in

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one generation

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and while no one’s claiming that mirror neurons are they

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d key ingredient that makes us different from other creatures and what these

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neurons do suggest about us seems almost self-evident

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you can see it any sunday at a sports bar

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with deep in our architecture down in ourselves we are a bill to be to get

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there’ll be very little point in covering a murder suspect

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if you live in europe

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would be a lot of point of having a digestive system if it on their own

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could be a good point of having a movement system if you lived on their

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own could be good point having a visual system if you look on your own the

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pitino point of having a mirror systems the mirror system