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"Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends. Rifkin has been an advisor to the European Union for the past decade. He&amp;#039;s a senior lecturer at the Wharton School&amp;rsquo;s Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Rifkin has an intensely optimistic perspective on the upcoming generation. He says, &amp;quot;a younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.&amp;quot; Rifkin introduces the idea of an empathetic civilization. In close observation of brain activity, scientists have discovered something known as &amp;#039;mirrored neurons.&amp;#039; When the brain recognizes an activity or an emotion, the same neurons acting in the observed will occur within the observer."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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