"Empathy may not be uniquely human quality 10:30 24 April 04 The ability to empathise is often considered uniquely human, the result of complex reasoning and abstract thought. But it might in fact be an incredibly simple brain process meaning that there is no reason why monkeys and other animals cannot empathise too." [Etcetera... at www.newscientist.com]
EPT comment:
A basic ingredient of AEVASIVE (i.e. ~selective adaptive unconsciousness) is _also_ not uniquely human. It does easily, and so far on the whole adaptively, and often mercifully, cancel-out the universal (observed and hypothesised as per the article) capability for empathy.
