The Emergence Machine

Empathy

abstract · Psychology · Level 10 · E9

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Emergence definition

Empathy is the capacity to understand and share the feelings of others, which requires awareness of social relationships and the ability to imagine oneself in another's position, leveraging the dynamic pattern of behavior and the integrated, subjective experience of consciousness.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “empathy” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “empathy”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
empatheia
Origin language
grc

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL10L9L8L7L5L2L1L0EmpathySympathyConsciousnessEmotionImaginationMindBehaviorPerception… intermediate l…FormInformationLifeProcessActionChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesNunchiL11SchadenfreudeL11Theory Of MindL11UbuntuL11AltruismL13EmpathyL10BehaviorL5ConsciousnessL8ImaginationL8SympathyL9E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Behavior L5 (requires)
    empathy builds on the concept of behavior
  • Consciousness L8 (requires)
    Empathy is the capacity to understand and share the feelings of others, which requires awareness of social relationships.
  • Imagination L8 (requires)
    Ability to deeply feel what another person experiences -- prerequisite: imagination
  • Sympathy L9 (requires)
    Ability to deeply feel what another person experiences -- prerequisite: sympathy

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