Empathy can be only understood when found in our personal programming code...

Empathy can only be achieved

if the similar experiences, whether those are positive or negative

have been experienced by the people that these trying to be communicated.

Its like giving instructions to a computer language such as SQL.

If the instructions are not already found in the compiler,

SQL will not be able to recognise those and will bring an error.

If SQL is asked to select the variable joy and that does not exist in the tbl_experiences,

then an error will pop up as this variable will not be able to be identified or related.

What ever we experience in life positive or negative,

this constructs our own programming code.

If we experienced a certain type of joy, 

such as the birth of a baby or giving affection to our pets,

this then will be inserted in our experiences repository.

If we experienced a certain type of sadness,

such as the loss of a loved one or failing an exam,

this then will be inserted in our experiences repository.

We can relate to other individuals

if only and only if,

those experienced the same items 

and have those built in their personal programming code.

With ♥ for philosophy,

Ziuζs  

Anthropomorphic Robots

Humans always wanted assistants & maybe that's the origin of servants or even slaves. Over time technology evolved & that gave us the opportunity to create artificial humans: machines called robots designed & programmed to do certain tasks. These robots have the ability to execute tasks more efficiently than humans.

Humans have also a "do tasks" section in their programming code. But humans have also a "feelings" section in their programming code that robots do not have. For some people "feelings" seem to be a "bug" in there programming code since feelings are always affecting their performance on doing tasks in one way or another; for some other that part of the code is perceived to be a blessing since the "feelings" section of the code  can enhance their creativity & do the certain tasks in slightly different way of what the "do tasks" section impose them to do.

Without the "feelings" section of the programming code

*  Feelings of course would never had existed

*  & tears would not had been let to leave the corner of our eyes

*  & smiles would not had let our mouth & cheeks to be stretched

*  & heartbeats would had been limited to certain scales when doing
    certain things

*  & opinions would had also being expressed in standard ways
    or expressions
*  & creativity would had been limited in zero levels
*  & life just wouldn't have been the same...

But "guess what? we are not robots". Whoever programmed us put "feelings", mistakenly or not, to be part of the code. & that made the whole things non standard, diverse, much more interesting, unexpected & live full! & even if sometimes those feelings hurt us especially when tasks seem to be impossible to be done, some other times the pleasure & happiness that those feelings give us cancel the not so good moments out...

With ♥ for philosophy,

Ziuζs