--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> Empathy is the ability to understand what another
> entity is thinking
> and feeling. I've never come across a nonhuman
> animal that
> demonstrates this ability
Haven't you ever owned a dog?
In fact, I'm not sure what would count
> as empathy in an
> organism that I can't talk to. How could we
> determine what a chicken
> or a dog thinks about what one of its peers is
> thinking and feeling?
How do you determine what a person whose language you don't speak is thinking and feeling? Or, say, Helen Keller pre-acquisition of language?
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