• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s almost like we spent millions of years evolving as social communal animals. Almost like we evolved …wait for it…

    Empathy. /gasp

    • Akasazh@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      We’re not very good at it. Lots of ways our empathy systems can be hacked.

      Take the Kuleshov effect where a broodily staring man is edited with a secondary image which completely changes most people’s reading of the internal feeling of the person.

      It’s not a perfect system.