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As both human and monkey mirror neurons code hand manipulation and facial gestures, some interesting hypotheses have emerged.
For example, the presence of mirror neurons in Broca's region suggests that human language co-evolved with hand and facial gestures rather than arising directly from vocalizations.
It might also be part of a larger mechanism that allows intentions, emotions, and even the intensity of pain to be matched by gestures and communicated between individuals.
Symbolic gestures are to be expected, as with the threatened government shutdown earlier this year, which merely created fodder for political advertising by both parties.
But such gestures, however laudable – and overdue – will not be enough to remove the barriers to quality health services.
The US, in particular, should bear in mind that success on some power-sharing arrangement in Syria may be the best way to create room for Iraq’s central government to make overdue gestures to the Sunnis.
Continuous confrontation with Pakistan does not become this great nation which has much more important things to think about and which could afford to make the gestures to appease Pakistan without too much political effort.
These goodwill gestures have, however, failed to moderate China's belligerent posture.
But, despite well-intentioned statements and narrow gestures, China’s new leadership has yet to establish a concrete, bold reform plan capable of resolving the economy’s deep-rooted problems.
In many other areas, too, China’s government either remains indecisive or is offering only rhetoric and small gestures.
But without real political organization, mere protest will go the way of Occupy Wall Street in 2011; it will peter out into ineffectual gestures.
But doing nothing, or making only isolated gestures, will simply hand China a fait accompli.
From a toughening of France’s position on Iran to a real warming of relations with Israel, not to mention symbolic gestures like Sarkozy’s summer vacation in America, or Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner’s arrival in Baghdad, this is a New France, one seriously considering a return to NATO’s integrated military structure.
Leaders must be honest about the scale of the challenge and recognize that a systemic and transformational change, not incremental gestures, is required.
The centrality of hereditary succession in the quest for peace and stability was shown by Hafez al-Assad when he agreed to unprecedented good will gestures aimed at drawing Ehud Barak’s Israeli government into a peace deal.
He might even offer some symbolic gestures, such as dissociating himself from objectionable political and media figures, or showing leniency towards those he has imprisoned for opposing him.
As for Ukraine, recent gestures of solidarity, such as the signing of an association agreement, are unlikely to develop into anything substantial in the foreseeable future.
In a country full of contradictory attitudes toward women – ranging from the worship of the powerful goddess Durga to the killing of innocent young brides – such gestures can be very powerful.
But gestures cannot be a substitute for real action, or for the hard work that is necessary to empower all Indian women.
But symbolic gestures are not enough.
These powerful symbolic gestures will have both short- and long-term effects.
Moon has shown no interest in such gestures.
In 2006, South Korea launched a yearlong, amply-financed outreach campaign that targeted all 15 Security Council members with official visits in their capitals, and that often dangled significant bilateral carrots – gestures that other candidates had neither the time nor the resources to offer.
Turkish-Armenian relations remain more about gestures than substance.
Symbols and gestures are insufficient.
One obvious explanation is that Chinese officials are extremely good at seducing Western businessmen with friendly gestures and generous promises.
The Sultan of SochiNEW YORK – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pardon of the former owner of Yukos Oil Company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and his declaration of an amnesty that has freed Greenpeace activists and two members of the punk rock/protest group Pussy Riot are welcome gestures.
But that is all they are: gestures.
The international initiatives of past administrations have been replaced by empty slogans, hollow gestures, and, of course, “alternative facts.”
As curious as such gestures are in an institution that thrives on imagery, they are symbolic frills.
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