Why do I get a physical feeling of what I can only describe as almost vertigo. I get a physical reaction when watching a video of someone getting hurt. Like when you watch a video of someone crashing their bike or falling off of a roof.
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The images processes by your eyes causes parts of your brain to run the same software being run by the person’s brain who is suffering. Some brains can run this code with astonishing fidelity, blessing/cursing the owners of this type of brain with what we call “empathy”.
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