alt Hacker News>In kids you can see it all the time - like a kid started crying because he sees others cry, but if you ask them why they cry - the explanation is always ridiculous.
That's just called empathy.
>In kids you can see it all the time - like a kid started crying because he sees others cry, but if you ask them why they cry - the explanation is always ridiculous.
That's just called empathy.
Their point is that empathy is a (very useful) emotional response. It doesn't give you a correct model of the other persons mind.