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lopifjun | 1 month ago

> empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Does this car "feel"?

When these shit suckers peddling these slop slingers want you to anthropomorphize them it's a positive signal to stop doing that.

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lokar|1 month ago

Having empathy for someone or something does not require the target of the empathy to itself have any feelings on the subject, or at all.

lopifjun|1 month ago

Show me a single source supporting this convoluted claim.

> or at all

That's called anthropomorphizing, as noted in my gp, and it is a different phenomenon from empathy.

> Anthropomorphism (from the Greek words "ánthrōpos" (ἄνθρωπος), meaning "human," and "morphē" (μορφή), meaning "form" or "shape") is the attribution of human form, character, or attributes to non-human entities [0]

"There is a medical condition known as delusional companion syndrome where people can have these feelings of empathy to a much more extreme extent and can be convinced that the objects do have these emotions — but it is much less common than the average anthropomorphizing, Shepard said." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/health/empathize-inanimate-ob...