> ... cognitive empathy requires that we make a conscious effort to imagine ourselves in someone else’s shoes, to adopt their perspective.
it is a pain in the ass to be empathetic in today's world. Got to put myself in the choose of specie who wants to transcend, another words for suicide, depends your take on the matter. anyway, it is NOT fun at all.
> I’d like you to keep in mind that we can train ourselves to feel more compassion rather than more empathic distress.
having compassion in a world that lacks functioning sensory machinery to realize the pain it creates to achieve its goal is like deliberately giving yourself to the mongols during their invasion. It is not that they did not care, they simply had no conscious. Having compassion for someone about to kill you, it s accepting we never had a choice, you pardon, not because you don't fear to feel the pain, but because you internalized that it required you to feel the pain, as a protagonist, as a prosthesis, for it to also feel the emotion through the other protagonist, it evaluates the result, for the result to happen, we are assigned roles.
it all looks very religious, though, it is not, you must never let you go to some fantasy, just accept that contradictions have a purpose.
> Unless you're a big fan of cosmology, there is no sign of our universe doing anything particularly interesting at a "the whole universe" scale.
to me it happens at such scales that i simply cannot fathom about it, only invent some story to myself.
To put a metaphor to it, it is like being a microbe within the gazillions of an human body. Those two world views operate at such different scales that they are appearing as different dimensions to both protagonists, IE, hardly visible to their eyes unless they produce a massive amount of intelligence.
gravity is a clue that what matters is that the experiment is actually going on, we are free falling, and because of my bias for survival, i feel like it must not stop, even though that seems counter intuitive...
we would not have this narrow vision of losers/winners IF the inequalities were reduced, it would not be as strong as it is today in our world view if this parameter was adjusted.
In turns, "winners" would not feel like they are at the verge of loosing it all, constantly, because the wealth they generate would be stored into a living organism (a nation, or else). like having multiple bank accounts, with multiple currencies, that one being .... bio-economic i guess.
democracy does not work. Or first, we should clarify the meaning of "it works". IMO, it did not prevented us from burning the world, this is sufficient to say that in a parallel universe i would bet differently.
feel ! speak what you feel ! tell me how alive you are. embrace it. let it go. act here and now. what do you see from there ? how is it to detach ? there is the purpose i ask you to bear with you for a while, if you d like to share this journey with me.
I cant tell if the first video is true not, my brain somewhere screams to the fake, i could search, can i trust ? hard to tell. I can only share the thrill it give me, my surprise to see those cars moving around, emptiness of those places, as if they had too much of this already. feels good, nobody can deny that.
of course, everything else is troubling the mind. we reflect on what it shows, we did not really want that, it was all fantasy. as we told each other all along, this is only fiction.
good news, IF that is true, i am not qualified to say. The real difficulty is about fighting the trail of progress, now, for 8 billions people, with some of them armed with nuclear weapons, to name only one example. the society much increased its ability to deliver to the market, awesome. we still need to account that all the changes we are planning also induces their own pollution on top of the basal metabolism.
There is no amount of tech solutionnism that can help at dealing with the problem at stake if we dont act according to our claims, as a specie, that s the real deal if you are honest. as a small reminder, many people dont even have clean water to drink....
... consider you are equally fantasist, if i were to search i would found many pieces of articles on your website that says that climate change is bad; really bad; agreed; yet, here you are, polluting against all the claims you are pretending. I am not advocating for you to socially suicide yourself, i perfectly understand, i also pollute much beyond what the words I use really mean. It is a thrilling feeling to be at edge of this cliff. it is deranged. this is yet a perfectly valid description of our situation. deal with that. confront.
no, not religion, mechanical activation of our reward system for a given amount of effort. to be rewarding implies you find some good into it, so you will rinse and repeat, whatever it is. some people likes sado maschism and explore this activity. others ask themselves about stars. you hardly get to choose about your tastes, you can only explore them as long as your reward system works. different people, different ability to explore the same topic, or, be attracted to it to begin with.
can not be religion, even though you could use that lens; it is too much troubles, people can not find agreements based on beliefs. gotta be science oriented, debatable under human civilized behaviour.
how do you account for the fact that, at best, you co evolved with the surrounding environment to be who you are, to find reward in what you do ? At best, because otherwise you are nothing more than the unexpected guest of a show you only witness by accident, interpreting the signals it receives, mistakenly assuming you were the recipient to begin with.
it is a pain in the ass to be empathetic in today's world. Got to put myself in the choose of specie who wants to transcend, another words for suicide, depends your take on the matter. anyway, it is NOT fun at all.