The automatic, I’m thinking process where we share other…

Page 119. The automatic, I’m thinking process where we share other peoples emotional experiences is called affective, or emotional Lee, empathy. But there’s also conscious, or, cognitive, apathy, also known as theory of mind, which is the capacity to consciously consider someone else’s mental state, to realize that they have their own sophisticated, inner life, different to our own.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Happy Brain by Dean Burnett

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