Posted by Declan on June 13, 2006, at 23:50:16
In reply to Re: I don't want any more elephants to die ToM » Declan, posted by llrrrpp on June 13, 2006, at 20:51:10
Those elegant experiments to determine the theory of mind thing were done on autistic kids and described in Uta Frith's "Autism: Explaining the Enigma". And then Buddhists/someoneorother say that the sense of self and seperateness is an illusion. I've spent a lot of time thinking about engulfment (is that term used anymore?) because I've been there so much. On a trip once a friend looked at me and said "egos are just fictional entities" and I felt awestruck. Can you can get a diagnosis for Asperger's if you are too empathic?
I hope these thoughts hang at least loosely together.
Declan
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