Hm. That sounds like a distinction in kind that's more likely a distinction in degree. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for episodic perspectives. I can read a post at 03:00 and read it in one way, with whatever that perspective might be. Then read it again after a workout, 3 cups of coffee, and a hot shower, and read it in an entirely different way. But I could also listen to a readout of it while working out. And if it's long enough, the perspective I have when I read the 1st part could be entirely different from the perspective I had when I finished.
I don't see any reason why the pseudo-synchronous meatspace conversations [†] are anything other than compact versions of the asynchronous post-response format. Some of us may be more or less capable of near-real-time empathy than others. That doesn't mean near-real-time is fundamentally different from asynchronous. And just like with NOT moving one's lips while reading relies on inhibitory signals, empathy relies on inhibitory suppression of one's *own* impulses. (It also relies on positive activation of those impulses. But the positive is usually given primacy when talking about things like empathy. My point is that it's a balance between the two.) [†] "pseudo" because the stimulus-response is not instantaneous. There's a non-zero transient even in the fastest person. On 6/8/20 7:20 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Incidentally, I think these asynchronous communications are not speech. They > are another kind of encoding and decoding system. There is often ambiguity > in terminology to be reconciled, and wider and narrower search that can be > conducted to do that reconciliation, but that is not what I would call > empathy. Empathy is about anticipation and resonance of feelings. I think > in written communication correspondents should be expected to manage their > feelings because they have a good opportunity to do so. -- ☣ uǝlƃ .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
