Beautifully illustrated explaination of empathy.

Sanjuro

Brilliant message and a lovely bit of animation with it. Well worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g

Somnus

Love it. Thanks for sharing.

Sanjuro

My pleasure. There's a whole series of videos on different subjects that are worth a look too. The one on Capitalism is really good.

Yitzhak Rabin

Credit to Kowloon who posted this in the cool videos thread.

This fits in with the theme of other species showing empathy and the ability to externalise feelings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAFQ5kUHPkY

Junco Partner

Oh noes. He said that the bible got something right i bet the good people of boards will find this objectional.



On a serious note that was brilliant we really should stop all the fighting about silly things. we are one people.

RichieC

Brilliant stuff.

Thank you for posting

ascanbe

Very interesting and well-done. Kinda misrepresents Enlightenment philosophy, though.

Cianos

Interesting concept that the scope of our sense of community and the bringing down of barriers has always been progressed by technology, suggesting that the internet is the contemporary tool for reaching the next step.

I don't quite buy in to the argument that people aren't (at least somewhat) selfish by nature however. A Darwinian reasoning for empathy is that it is a pretty useful survival tool...that we can learn a lot from our own experiences, but we could learn ten times more from ten neighbours. So it pays off to be empathetic because we don't have to figure out exclusively from our own misfortune what is good for us and what is bad.

Further, displaying empathy increases your likability, letting people know that you recognise their hardship or success. So the world reacted to Haiti, but it was the most PC thing to do. Not necessarily a bad thing at all, but it's a little too glossed to omit that being empathetic gives no personal reward.

Very nice vid nonetheless!

Fremen

Eh. I'm a bit underwhelmed. It could have done without the science. He's taking established results and extrapolating wildly from them.

There were a few other things that rankled a little. His reference to religion and nation states as 'fiction', for example. Maybe it's specialist jargon in his field, but if you classify nation states and religion as fiction, I'm pretty sure you're logically constrained to classify things like tribalism, family and civilisation as fiction too. More or less the whole field of human endeavour except for birth, death and eating things.

ArtSmart

sorry cant muster enough empathy to watch it.