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Empathy has been evolved in animal communities who collectively care about the offsprings. It is an evolutionary strategy to make communities possible. It is pr
by dschiptsov 11y ago
Empathy has been evolved in animal communities who collectively care about the offsprings. It is an evolutionary strategy to make communities possible. It is protection for offsprings from being murdered and eaten as it happens among reptiles, fishes, etc. It is a weak bond though.
What they need a decade-long quest for, except funding?
And, obviously, higher animals do have at least some cross-species empathy toward pups. Any villagers who had cat and dog pups will tell you that.
The sexual attraction and parent-offspring bonds, including affection towards young, are the strongest evolutionary forces.
- anon4 11y agoCould it be that all animals have empathy, but some have a much smaller and/or different set of feelings they experience? As an analogy, if I see you eating candy, I can understand that you're currently tasting sweet, but if a cat sees you, it has no concept of sweet, because its tongue doesn't have those receptors. You can also see this in people, the most egregious example being "Let them eat cake" oft mis-attributed to Marie Antoinette. If you have never felt something yourself, either due to your upbringing or because your species has no capacity to experience that feel, is it that you have no empathy towards someone having that experience or that you simply cannot so much as conceive of the feeling in question?
- maxxxxx 11y agoI know quite a few humans in the business world that I think don't really have empathy but have learned to behave as if they had it.