Michael Nehls
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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So,
When we are empathic, you know, we immediately act on something.
We see something, we act.
This person is suffering, we act.
But rational compassion is more.
It's more like, if I do something, what does it mean for the other person?
Maybe people who are not even outside, not inside this room, people outside in other countries.
What do my actions...
do to these people.
For this, empathy is not the right function in our brain.
This is what Kahneman, who got the Nobel Prize about System 1, System 2, 2002, a psychologist, called System 1 is a reflex.
Empathy is kind of a reflex.
But rational compassion is something that requires thinking.
Thinking about putting yourself in the shoes of others, maybe people you don't even see.
Seeing the world out of the eyes from other people.
And all these functions are based on the production of new nerve cells in the hippocampus.
So if you shut down the production of new nerve cells in the hippocampus, people lose essentially the ability to be human.
Yeah, they lose themselves.
And the ultimate losing of oneself is having Alzheimer's, which actually is the ultimate result of having a lifelong shutdown of the production of new nerve cells.
Yeah, still happens.
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