maternal depression 产妇抑郁
73. Mammal brains grow properly only when they are able to interpenetrate with another.
interpenetrate 渗透
74. Rat pups who are licked and groomed by their mothers have more synaptic connections than rat pup who aren't.
groom 使整洁; 使（动物）清洁
75. We come up with hypothesis about how other people will behave, and then test those hypothesis against the evidence we observe minute by minute.
76. Rival hypothesis: We automatically simulate others, and understand what others feel by feeling a version of what they are experiencing, in ourselves.
77. The monkey was automatically simulating the mental processes it observed in another.
78. Human brains have an automatic ability to perform deep imitation and in this way share mental processes across the invisible space between them.
79. People are able to feel what others experience as if it were happening to them.
80. Human mirror neurons help people interpret the intention of an action, although unlike monkey mirror neurons, they seem to be able to imitate an action even when no goal is detected.
81. When people watch a chase scene in a movie, they respond as if they were actually being chased, except at lower intensity.
82. The more two people imitate each other's movements, the more they like each other - and the more they like each other, the more they imitate.
83. Many scientists believe that the ability to unconsciously share another's pain is a building block of empathy, and through that emotion, morality.
84. Laughter exists for a reason, and it probably existed before humans developed language. People are thirty times more likely to laugh when they are with other people than when they are alone.
85. When people are in bonding situations, laughter flows.
86. Laughter is a language that people use to bond, to cover over social awkwardness or to reinforce bonding that has already occurred.
cover over 掩盖
87. Young children don't seem to have a self-conscious inner observer.
88. The executive-function areas in the front of the brain are slow to mature, so Harold did little controlled, self-directed thinking.
89. That is to say, people don't develop first and create relationships. People are born into relationships - with parents, with ancestors - and those relationships create people.
90. That means he has no inner narrator that he thinks of as himself.
think of as... 把…看作是
91. He couldn't consciously remember that past, or consciously connect his past actions to his present ones in one coherent timeline.
coherent 连贯的，一致的
92. They don't understand that thoughts can simply follow the logic of your internal experience instead of being triggered from the outside.
93. Much of childhood - much of life - consists of integrating the chaotic billions of stimuli we encounter into sophisticated models, which are then used to anticipate, interpret, and navigate through life.
94. Every situation we meet with in life is construed in terms of the representational models we have of the world about us and of ourselves. Information reaching us through our sense organs is selected and interpreted in terms of those models, its significance for us and for those we care for is evaluated in terms of them, and plans of action conceived and executed with those models in mind.
95. Those internal maps determine how we see, what emotional value we assign to things, what we want, how we react, and how good we are predicting what will come next.
96. The brain makes synapses to store information. Each thing we know is embodied in a network of neural connections.
97. A brain is the record of a life, The network of neural connections are the physical manifestation of your habits, personality, and predilections. You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head.
predilection [,prɛdl'ɛkʃən] n. 偏爱，嗜好
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