The Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is There a Difference Between Zero Some Games and Theory of Mind
Every more every philosophy, every religion has some sort of universalizable thing, the golden rule. In order to figure out what something is you've got to put yourself in others perspectives and universalize it. And I think that that would be impossible without some sort of cognitive empathy. It requires a monitoring of your own responses. There's an interesting split between non zero some games and zero some games when it comes to coordinated action as to our mutual benefit.
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