[MD] seeing beyond the mirror (was: Heads or tails?)

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Hi Platt
> 
> Are there also social responses to quality?
> Perhaps allowing allow such feelings as empathy
> to emerge and then the ability to see things from the others
> point of view?
> 
> David M
> 
> 
> > Perhaps the rationale is that the MOQ defines emotions as more biological 
> > than
> > social or intellectual. "The MOQ sees emotions as a biological response to 
> > quality
> > and not the same thing as quality." (Note 141, Lila's Child)

I see empathy more as an intellectual effort when one tries to put oneself
in another's shoes, based on an intellectual understanding that there but for
fate go I, e.g., "Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee."  



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