mindfulness

We are going towards a society where artificial intelligence will have more and more importance and power. Descartes meant that animals are automates. But if they are, we are too! Animals are conscious, they have feelings and so on, even insects at some level. Though we have more  intelligence than other animals. But machines can be intelligent too. Even more intelligent than we are (depending on what we mean with the term intelligence). Yuval Harari and others mean that we will interact with AI and be super intelligent and become so different that we can call it a new specie. But just very rich people can afford it. So we will have different species on earth, as when the neanderthals lived here. The physician Michio Kaku means that the brain is not more or less than  a biological machine. And it may be replicated, even if it will be very difficult. But what about ethics?  And what about art? What about meaning? Immanuel Kant meant that he had moralistic laws in

Well it´s not a question about win or loose - it's about definitions. Empathy often means something like ; the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. The keywords is "share the feelings of another".  Of course it's okay to share the feelings of a friend, or a happy person. But many around us is not happy, and if we read the news we may think that no one is happy. So empathy can be exhausting.  In mindfulness compassion often means "love and kindness". Also called metta. That word  derives from Pali, an ancient language in India spoken and written in the lifetime of Buddha. It can be helpful to meditate on compassion, specially if it is for all beings, without discrimination.  You may feel well after a metta meditation.  But it will be to no use if you don't act in some way. But the action doesn't have to driven by just feelings.  We can look at our feelings and not act immediately. Maybe we can find a more effecti