Humans are Empathy Machines
Nov 3 · 6 min read

“We Are Not Thinking Machines. We Are Feeling Machines That Think.” — Antonio Damasio
Anil Seth calls us a “Beast Machine”. Along the same lines, I’ve argued that we are “Intuition Machines”. The argument goes that biological brains gain an understanding of their world through the embodiment in its environment. Understanding can be understood as fitness from…


