Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Hearing more resonance around this
Really enjoyed this - well written & super insightful around personhood, memory, etc
the idea of empathy itself only dates to the late eighteenth century. The notion was invented by psycho-physiologist Wilhelm Wundt to describe our ability to experience another’s experience, and different, Wundt thought, from sympathy and compassion. Empathy is about the transmission of information; sympathy and compassion are reactions to that
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