“Within the effulgence of their new brain, mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance-a symphony of mutual exchange and internal adaption whereby two mammal become attuned to each others internal states. It is limibic resonance that makes looking into the face of another emotionally responsive creature a multi-layered experience. Instead of seeing a pair of eyes as two bespeckled buttons, when we look into the ocular portals to the limbic brain our vision goes deep: the sensations multiply, just as two mirros placed in opposition create a shimmering ricochet of reflections whose depth recedes into infinity. Eye contact, although it occurs over a gap of yards, is not a metaphor. When we meet the gaze of another, two nervous systems achive a palpable and intimate apposition.”
(Lewis, Amini, & Lannon, 2000; p. 63)