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00:00All right. Well, looking ahead to your next book then coming out, it's called Suicidal Empathy. I'm not sure if that's the full title or an abridged version. Can you explain what you mean by that?
00:11Thank you for that question. So in the parasitic mind, I argued that our cognitive system could be parasitized, could be zombified. Our cognitive system is just a fancy way of saying our ability to think. But we are both a thinking and feeling animal. And therefore, suicidal empathy completes the story and says, here is what happens when our emotional system is hijacked.
00:37And I use empathy as the key value here, because while empathy is a beautiful value to hold, right? We are a social species. It makes perfect sense that we be empathetic to the people that we are interacting with.
00:55Aristotle explained to us more than 2,000 years ago that all good things in the right amount, at the right place, in the right measure. So empathy is good. But when it targets the right people at the right measure and so on, suicidal empathy is where you become so orgiastic in your metting out of empathy that it no longer serves a valuable objective.
01:19Aristotle spoke to a multiple objective.