Tag: empathy

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, advisors, artificial intelligence, Bobby Zenith, California, ChatGPT, companionship, confidants, Connecticut, counselors, delusions, editing, emotional intelligence, empathy, employees, friends, guardrails, intimacy, John West, journalists, kindness, kitchen tips, liability, memory, mental health, mental illnesss, Microsoft, Microsoft AI, Microsoft Copilot, misconduct, murder-suicide, Mustafa Suleyman, New York City, Old Greenwich, OpenAI, recipes, Stein-Erik Soelberg, suicide, tech companies, technology, Wall Street Journal, writing}

In Connecticut, Horrors of AI Finally Come into View

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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A 56-year-old man, living with his mother in a wealthy New York suburb, developed a “friendship” with ChatGPT. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, caterpillars, consciousness, emergence, empathy, evolutionary theory, explanations, Genesis, intelligence, materialism, mind, monotheism, promissory materialism, religion, RNA, robotics}

In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2023

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2020

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, adults, Aeon, animals, caregivers, children, chimpanzees, Darwinian evolution, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, empathy, feelings, human beings, infants, intelligence, intelligent design, just-so stories, Mind Matters, rationality}

Empathy — The Foundation of Human Exceptionalism?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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If I gave you 15 seconds you could come up with a pat evolutionary just-so story to account for this, speculating on what reproductive advantage it serves. Read More ›

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Date
January 8, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, circulatory system, empathy, eyes, Geoffrey Simmons, hearing, human body, humor, intelligent design, nervous system, programmers, robots, soul}

Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Human Design — and Re-Creating It in Robots

_{Science and Culture
January 8, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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Will robots ever experience empathy or other feelings, or develop a genuine sense of humor? Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __k-review, birth, cell biology, developing world, disease, DNA, empathy, Euripides, gene, great apes, human body, infants, labor, medicine, molecular biology, mothers, mutations, Nathan Lents, nurse, pelvis, The Human Evolution Blog, theory of mind, vitamin B12, vitamin C}

Biologist Nathan Lents: Beauty in Error

_{Ann Gauger
November 13, 2018

Evolution, Linguistics, Reproductive Science

4}

He has a different take on imperfection, one more optimistic than one might expect from someone who writes about what’s wrong with us. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 15, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, "created equal", African Americans, algorithms, artificial intelligence, behavior, Civil War, consciousness, emotivism, empathy, endowed by their creator, feelings, human beings, human rights, programming, Psychology Today, Racism, rights, robots, slavery, stories, Thomas Jefferson}

Rights Are Not about “Feelings”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 15, 2018

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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Thomas Hills argues that we will accord human-style rights to robots because we will come to empathize with them. Read More ›