Does the Practise of Imagining Create more Empathetic People or Conversely does Practising Non Face-to-Face Communication Make One Less Empathetic?

Is it simply a matter of the mirror neurons in our brain switching on during empathy because we have learnt to maximise biological survival this way? As Jonah Lehrer says ‘sympathy is one of humanity’s most basic instincts, which is why evolution lavished so much attention on mirror neurons, the fus...

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