Can training our brains help make the world a better place?

I found this presentation by Tania Singer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences of new neuroscientific research quite interesting.  It speaks to some of the conversations I had with some of you about the possibilities of meditation making global changes to our default negative reactivity and ideas about the role of compassion and empathy in individual and collective experience.

http://www.weforum.org/ Can training our brains help make the world a better place? Tania Singer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences thinks it can. She's a social neuroscientist and psychologist who says the brain's plasticity means it can be trained to make us less selfish and more compassionate.