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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