Re: Empathy

On 17/12/2012, at 19:22, "hibbsa" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> --- In [email protected], Elliot Temple <curi@...> wrote:
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> > On Dec 16, 2012, at 11:15 AM, hibbsa <asbbih@...> wrote:
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> > > Something that might be helpful to a discussion about empathy would be
> > > if particapants disclose whether they personally consistently experience
> > > what they assume must be meant by 'empathy'. Not everyone does.
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> > Stop trying to invade people's privacy.
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> > -- Elliot Temple
> > http://fallibleideas.com/
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> Voluntary disclosure doesn't involve any kind of invasion that I can see. So the question would be the relevance/importance to the discussion of what is suggested. 
> About that I would say that, if you don't experience the sensation of empathy, and never have...then you about as useful to people that do or have as a blind man is to a discussion about the visual sensation of colour.
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Is this what emotions are like? Is empathy, poorly defined as it is, a quale like the perception of some colour?

Brett.

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