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62: Love, Power, Morality, and Awe

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The Case Against Empathy

Empathy is different from compassion, which is I want to ameliorate the suffering of others. In fact, neural data show empathy involves parts of the frontal lobes and compassion involves a very old region near the brain stem. So with that said, I would predict scientifically that empathy would be much less correlated with all than compassion would be correlated with all.

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