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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:10PM (#36934184)
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.

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Re:I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden on society-one we... by specialist on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:25PM (#36934964)
Theory 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.)

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