Our brains build social worlds

The basic kinds of 'mechanisms' in the brain which help build rapport (exploited by NLP practitioners, among others) are becoming evident.

During any kind of social interaction people unconsciously imitate each other, or else show the appropriate complementary action and reaction. When this happens, the parts of the brain that unconsciously respond to the actions of others create a form of resonance. We are not usually aware of this, but when it occurs we feel 'on the same wavelength' as the person with whom we are interacting

This is important, because if I'm right about the emergent and unitary nature of social organisations such that they can be regarded as spiritually significant entities and be regarded as principalities, powers, thrones, dominions etc as per NT epistles, then this gives us a biological basis to the unification of human individuals into coherent /resonant entities. This in turn may be analogous to the way that neurons plus feedback-sensitive interactivity build a brain and mind emerges. Human individuals plus feed-back sensitive interactivity build organisations or societies and Principalities emerge. Human minds are significant spiritually to God, is it really plausible to suppose that the emergent entities of human interaction and co-ordination are not also significant? And being significant would not be represented in scripture somehow?

Originating article: How our brains build social worlds - opinion - 02 December 2009 - New Scientist: