Mar 27 2012: The power behind shared experience lies within the mirror neuron--It is a special type of neuron that reacts to our observation of other people experiencing various sensations that we are familiar with--We are not performing the actions that provide the experiences such as taste and smell and so forth, but as we observe the actions our mirror neurons respond in a way that produces these sensations as if WE were performing these actions. Simply in observing others we are altering our neural pathways. Since everyone is equipped with mirror neurons, these experiences are reciprocal--Which also means that when we produce certain sensations through cognitive thought, we are enabling those observing us to experience the same things, and we are also subtly altering THEIR neural pathways.
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