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If we look at external forces, you know, social media, how people are treated on social media, what's the evidence for or against that operating on our sense of empathy? Being a person who exists sort of at this weird interface between empathy research and a neuroscience lab and social media, where I'm posting videos and engaging with audiences, I couldn't help but notice the absence of empathy that I witnessed on social media.
And that's people behaving towards me in a very hostile way, people arguing with one another in the comments. The human brain evolved for face-to-face contact. We have all of these incredible systems for evaluating the experiences of each other. Our eyes are lined with white so that we can easily see where one another are looking, and our eyebrows allow us to emote. You know, we can express emotions. And none of that's in a common thread. None of that, none.