Concept

Extended empathy

Extended empathy is built upon this foundation: the conscious imagination of what it is like to be in that person’s life situation.

Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 2.3 — 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

Related concepts

Primary empathyIterated empathySycophancy

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1. Ch. 2.3 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

   Extended empathy is built upon this foundation: the conscious imagination of what it is like to be in that …

2. Ch. 2.3 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

   … ted empathy cannot come about at all without bodily resonance. A response based solely on extended empathy may be apt; it may offer comfort; it may also be manipulative. What it cannot do is engag …

3. Ch. 4.1 4.1 The lack of corporeality: echo instead of resonance

   … hed as a therapeutic tool in Chapters 2.3 and 3.1 is missing. Admittedly, AI can simulate extended empathy as a linguistic pattern and often recognise and name emotions more precisely than the ave …

4. Ch. 4.1 4.1 The lack of corporeality: echo instead of resonance

   … enuine resonance, no trust is formed; and without trust, there can be no profound change. Extended empathy without a primary foundation is a potentially manipulative technique, a mere ‘pretence’: …

5. Ch. 6.1 6.1 Interpretation of the results

   The question confuses the effect with the cause. What AI achieves, at best, is ‘extended empathy’ (chapter 2.3): the cognitive adoption of another’s perspective, which statistically reco …