I find it fascinating how we’re so willing to ascribe thoughts, feelings, and motivations to inanimate objects or forces of nature and on the other hand we’re so quick to remove all of those attributes from other groups of humans to justify horrible acts done to them.
Beautifully (tragically?) put. Well done. It’s worth pondering…
I think maybe it’s because when something lacks human qualities, we’re more able to project our wishes onto it, whether that’s its “personality” or “story” or “feelings”, whatever. Maybe in a way it makes it feel predictable and “safer”, like we know it somehow. It will behave the way it behaves regardless of the little projections we put on it that can sometimes be a remnant of our own egos.
…People, on the other hand, are much less predictable, and tend to highly dislike being projected upon. Maybe removing relatable qualities and generalizing groups of them is a selfish way of turning them into an “object” that “feels more predictable” and the one projecting feels like it satisfies their need for control, even though it dehumanizes others who are, in actuality, just like themselves.
I feel like it’s a maladaptive way to simplify the complicated. The brain loves to simplify.
I find it fascinating how we’re so willing to ascribe thoughts, feelings, and motivations to inanimate objects or forces of nature and on the other hand we’re so quick to remove all of those attributes from other groups of humans to justify horrible acts done to them.
We’re hella cute. But pareidolia is seriously gonna be the end of us when the AI takes over 😂
It’s already responsible for religion and all the nonsense it’s spawned.
Even ascribing consciousness into others or ourselves is actually pretty stupid if you think about it.
Stemming from religion there’s this idea that human “souls” are somehow special and exist on a plane outside reality. But that’s not the case.
We are just semi-rigid blobs of mostly water that grew into weird shapes.
Woah woah there, who you calling a weird shape?
Yeah, round is arguably the most perfect shape
Or that everyone everywhere pictures a little robot the size of like Wall-e, when curiosity is really 10 feet long, 7 feet high, and 2,000 pounds.
That’s exactly what @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca was talking about. They cut off the feet of like 5 humans, just to measure the size of a damn robot.
I dropped my phone the other day and started apologising to it for dropping it again.
Probably the biggest and most important question in the world.
Beautifully (tragically?) put. Well done. It’s worth pondering…
I think maybe it’s because when something lacks human qualities, we’re more able to project our wishes onto it, whether that’s its “personality” or “story” or “feelings”, whatever. Maybe in a way it makes it feel predictable and “safer”, like we know it somehow. It will behave the way it behaves regardless of the little projections we put on it that can sometimes be a remnant of our own egos.
…People, on the other hand, are much less predictable, and tend to highly dislike being projected upon. Maybe removing relatable qualities and generalizing groups of them is a selfish way of turning them into an “object” that “feels more predictable” and the one projecting feels like it satisfies their need for control, even though it dehumanizes others who are, in actuality, just like themselves.
I feel like it’s a maladaptive way to simplify the complicated. The brain loves to simplify.
Empathy tends to be such a prevention AND a cure…