Kate Murphy

I mean, we really are a composite of our social patterns.

interactions, these synchronies, these vibrations that occur within our bodies.

I mean, it does, I agree with you.

It does sort of sound like, well, this is getting kind of woo-woo.

And it does, but unless you start looking at all of these studies and looking at the actual clinical science where they have people hooked up to all these machines and you're like, oh my God, their brain waves are exactly the same right now.

How did that happen?

We don't know, but it's happening.

I agree with you because I'm not advocating one way or another, but it's fascinating to contemplate.

Yes, actually.

We did not talk about how when people do synchronized activities, behaviors, how it builds these feelings of affinity and rapport.

People are more likely to share information.

They're more likely to be helpful and kind.

There's abundant research showing that.

And if you think about it, just going back historically,

how people bonded, how people came together was by doing synchronized activities.

And that would be religion, where people bow, sing, pray, recite prayers at the same time.

Think about the military, people marching in sync.

And it develops this sense of camaraderie that's built in.

Again, the research is, well, why is that?

Don't really know, but the thinking is that