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While flipping channels trying to find something to watch other than CSI or Law and Order...our defaults when nothing else seems to be on (and those shows are ALWAYS on), I ran across a news show that did a small piece on mirror neurons in the brain. I have a fascination with all things Science, so I was immediately drawn in. When you are performing an action, let just say bouncing a ball, certain neurons in your brain fire. Scientists discovered that if you watch someone else bouncing a ball, some of the same neurons still fire and if you even hear the sound of a bouncing ball those 'mirror' neurons fire in response. Our brains seem to be forming a simulation of the action in our minds. We experience it almost as if we were actually doing it. It's also been shown that if you watch someone getting poked with a needle, that this mirror system in the brain can cause neurons associated with pain to fire. You didn't actually get stuck. It may be all in your mind, but it cau...