alt Hacker NewsTheir point is that empathy is a (very useful) emotional response. It doesn't give you a correct model of the other persons mind.
Their point is that empathy is a (very useful) emotional response. It doesn't give you a correct model of the other persons mind.
Why can’t it be both? We have dedicated neural circuitry to mirroring others’ emotions, and pheromones that directly signal emotions between individuals.