Grammar, Usage / sentence structure question [13]

A sentence adapted from economist - I couldn't get the structure of the sentence

"It enables us to take old experiences out of the box and explore how we feel and think about them today, rather than leaving them frozen. "

Q1)Can I rewrite the above sentence like:

It enables us to take old experiences out of the box ,and It also enables us to explore how we feel and think about them today, rather than leaving them frozen.

q2) If I did not put comma before rather than , then what does the sentence would meant ? Or how the sentence will have been moified then ?

thanks
Salma Afrin