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Absence of empathy and other-experience - with some political orientations being actively hostile to it - may well be our single biggest cognitive handicap as a
by TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
Absence of empathy and other-experience - with some political orientations being actively hostile to it - may well be our single biggest cognitive handicap as a species.
Many humans seem to be locked inside their skulls in what is - ironically - a very handicapped and limited mobility way.
- specialist 3y agoTheory of mind (empathy) is what makes humans human. It enabled our comparatively larger social groups to function at all. More important than opposable thumbs, vocal cords / language, walking upright, and fire. (IMHO; believe but cannot prove; blah, blah, blah.)