How do we know what other people want?

Rebecca Saxe discusses how the we figure out the needs and desires of others. How do we make moral judgements? Where does empathy come from? Rebecca studies what we think about other people’s thoughts. She considers how we sense the motives of others and tries to answer the age old question - How can we know what others want? Why is it so hard to change what others want or believe? This is a really interesting look at how the brain judges the actions of others and how this then has an impact upon our moral sense. click here for the link