Concept

Iterated empathy

The third stage is iterative empathy: mutual awareness. ‘I feel that you are feeling with me, and you feel that I sense this.’ Both know from the other that they are reaching one another, and this knowledge intensifies as it happens.

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)

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Primary empathyExtended empathyUnavailability

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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)

   The third stage is iterative empathy: mutual awareness. ‘I feel that you are feeling with me, and you feel that I sense this.’ …

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

   The three stages cannot be separated from one another. Iterated empathy cannot come about at all without bodily resonance. A response based solely on extended em …

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

   … 2). Humans produce expression; AI produces only output. The circle remains one-sided. And iterative empathy remains beyond its reach, because it lacks ‘you’-consciousness.