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Can you truly know what it’s like to be anyone else?
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Can you truly know what it’s like to be anyone else?
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the obvious answer is no.
but there are times when someone close may know you better than yourself,
but there are times when someone close may know you better than yourself,
not really it is just something that is beyond human comprehension
No.
It's difficult discovering, understanding and acknowledging one's own self to begin with, so if you factor the various ways in which interpersonal communication as we know it is inefficient, we can assume fully comprehending others is impossible.
You can't claim ownership of 2 different consciousnesses. I don't even know that it's theoretically possible. You are either yourself or you are that someone else. This is the case because even if you clone yourself perfectly and up-bring the clone EXACTLY as you were, ignoring the uncontrollable variables that would make them slightly different, to the point where they were exactly like you, you would not have perception of their consciousness on a personal level.
So especially in the case of a completely different person, to try and know what they process in their brain, their thoughts, ideology, motives, believes, etc, no, you won't truly know what it's like to be them. To a degree by studying their genetics, neurology, and upbringing. But fully, no.
So especially in the case of a completely different person, to try and know what they process in their brain, their thoughts, ideology, motives, believes, etc, no, you won't truly know what it's like to be them. To a degree by studying their genetics, neurology, and upbringing. But fully, no.
Of course not. That wouldn't be possible even if you could read minds.
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Is this a trick question? A philosophical one of sorts perhaps?
I really don't want to sound like an ass but if taken seriously the answer should be fairly obvious.
I really don't want to sound like an ass but if taken seriously the answer should be fairly obvious.
I hardly know myself, so no way.
No because you first have to know yourself. At best, you can "feel" what it's like to be someone else with a lot of interaction and knowledge of another.
Literally, the answer is obviously no unless we figure a way to have two consciousnesses at once and transfer them.
However, I think that if you have been in the same situation you can possibly empathize with someone and on a visceral scale know it is like to be in that particular situation. Also note that empathy and sympathy are quite different.
However, I think that if you have been in the same situation you can possibly empathize with someone and on a visceral scale know it is like to be in that particular situation. Also note that empathy and sympathy are quite different.
Can you truly know what it's like to not make bad threads?
Yep, not with out current level of technologies and understanding of how things work.mathexpert9981 wrote:
Literally, the answer is obviously no unless we figure a way to have two consciousnesses at once and transfer them.