Jeremy Rifkin presents one aspect of emerging global consciousness, the expansion of our capacity for empathy based on information technology. He sees empathy evolving in response to the way our information technology extends the nervous system.
This is the most hopeful view I've seen of where we might be going.
Tags: empathy, mirror neurons
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