Empathy In Extremis
Talk to the walls
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4 min readAug 27, 2020
“If I could talk to the animals…” sang Dr Doolittle, and then proceeded to do so.
How interesting would it be? Maybe not so much as you would imagine. What if you dedicated your life to establishing communication with a dolphin and then found that all of their conversation revolved around how to find the warm currents close to the shore, or whether it was better to swallow…