How, then, can mirror neurons bring about altruistic behavior? By helping us feel what others feel, mirror neurons naturally make us feel compassionate. They allow to put ourselves in someone else's situation without them, we would not understand or care about other people's emotions. Would we help hurricane victims? Give money to the poor? Save lives? Probably not, says Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist"We are good because our biology drives us to be good." In other words, mirror neurons seem to prepare us to be altruistic.