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Very interesting article on Empathy-Systematizing brain differences in autism vs. control of half a million people" https://www.pnas.org/content/115/48/12152 … Most of the correlations have a P < 2.2 × 10^−16 which is very insane. There's also this very interesting paragraph:pic.twitter.com/RnLkaiApAf
Affective empathy I guess is emotional empathy: feeling the same emotion as another person; feeling distress at another's plight; feeling compassion for other people. Cognitive empathy is basically mind reading, or being able to know the contents of someone else's mind.
What they're saying is that people with autism still have emotional empathy--meaning they still feel other people's emotions--they just lack *cognitive empathy*, so they have no idea why other people feel that way, and as far as I can tell this paper only tests the latter.
This paragraph suggests that sociopaths are the inverse of autism: They have cognitive empathy--so they can read people's minds--but lack the emotional empathy necessary to feel what other people feel or sympathize with them.
The other interesting aspect of this is how the crazy P < 2.2*10^-16 correlation is with sex differences, and how Empathy is inversely correlated with Systematizing. In a weird way, demanding people be more empathic might be like demanding someone just stop being schizophrenic.
So, based on my idea that lead poisoning in children causes narcissism and sociopathy, it could still hold. What can't hold is the idea that sociopathy and autism are "linked". This suggests they're more inverse conditions of the same type with probably different causes?
Another thought is that, if it's so important to learn empathy (and everyone saying that seems to not know there's two types or that compassion is part of it ...as they tell people to commit suicide for a tweet) then it's important for empaths to learn systematizing.
Finally, it would seem then that being in the balanced range--being able to do both empathy and systematizing--is the optimal position, and that anyone advocating for the superiority of empathy is advocating for a brain that isn't balanced.
Now, what if learning to code is a great way for empaths to learn systematic thinking; but learning to paint is a great way for systematizers to learn empathy? Actually, why the fuck is art considered some path to empathy? That by itself would need reevaluation.
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