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 us 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 drive us to be good." In other words, mirror neurons seem to prepare us to be altruistic.than when they received extra money to keep for themselves. The scientists point out that this was "the first neural evidence for pure altruism," meaning that altruism may indeed have a biological connection.