This may be hard for a sociopath to believe but it really is possible for one human being to feel intense empathy for another human being. Even a complete stranger!.
Well, not to quibble, but not feeling for others outside of our family or clan is the universal/inherited start pointing of human development.
It is not a normal aspect of human nature to have those feelings, and especially not strong feelings.
You, or I, are more likely to want to murder, mate with, or ruthlessly pillage all of our "rivals" things.
Possibly while eating them to inherent their "essence!"
Now, what that means, is that these feelings are cultural and personal, having been cultivated by religious and philosophical theory over the course of a few thousand years.
For the basics the "The Three Levels of Uniqueness in Mental Programing" is a good starting place for understanding how we become "us."
- We who are all human - even a Hitler
- Us who share any various form of historical understanding of shared events, knowledge of local ideas and places, and a shared group of values.
- You or I who were wonderfully codified out of untold millions of gene sequences, influenced by parents, friends, and teachers, who probably related that culture.
Then? A chance to learn, to be even more of you and I through the shared experiences of life. How fun!
That we might think it wise to be "good Samaritans" and not smash each other with rocks for sport or else gang rape the people whoever lived on the other side of the mountain.
Because
"why not" really took a long, long time to sink in, and few understand why, how, or what happens if we undue the progress.
AI is certainly a really good reason to take being human very seriously, humanity, potentially the cruelest animals of a cruel world.
