“Our ability to track the inner state of beings in our lifeworld (our inner experience, including our representations of others) is a marvelous evolutionary innovation. [B]ut as long as we don’t fix its profound biases, we cannot rely on it to make ethical choices. We can only use it to understand the reality of the suffering of others.”

— Andres Gomez Emilsson, In Praise of Systematizing Empathy (Qualia Computing, April 2016)