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451: Jason Silva | Origins of a Performance Philosopher

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Importance of Empathy in Relationships

The more empathetic you are, the more rich your modeling of other people's minds are. When I talk to you, I am running a simulation of your mind and interacting with that. And then I'm also running a simulations of your simulation of me. So within my simulation of you, there's a simulation of how you see me. We're making those little micro-assessments all the time. There's a sociologist called Cooley calls this the looking glass self. It feels like when you have two mirrors that look at each other and it creates an engulfing infinity or recursive loop. That's kind of how consciousness works.

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