The Science of Compassion
Book chapter
Authors | GIlbert, Paul |
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Abstract | This chapter explores the nature and science of compassion, how it can texture political discourse, but also the challenges it is up against. Most scientists recognise that nothing makes much sense in biology, or the nature of the mind, without an evolutionary analysis. Evolutionary analysis operates through two fundamental processes in the universe, which are splitting apart, separating, diversifying, and even competing versus coming together, integrating, coordinating, and building complexity. In the television series Westworld, pleasure androids are programmed with algorithms and scripts to live out certain kinds of life narratives such that the human participants visiting the 'theme park' can interact and do what they want to them. As primates, humans are capable of two quite different types of life strategy and motivational orientation to the world. |
Keywords | compassion; science of compassion; political discourse |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISBN | 9780429331176 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429331176 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/626207 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/626207 | |
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Publication dates | 30 Nov 2021 |
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Deposited | 20 Jan 2022, 12:25 |
Accepted | 2021 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Contributors | university of Derby |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9487w/the-science-of-compassion
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