Empathy

The mind can be manipulated by others. When watching the ending of possesor Girder the boss, grooms and  Manipulates Vos.  A person can slowly groom you into doing what they want you to do.  The human mind can be manipulated. If you are told long enough you are  A Sociopath, you begin to believe it.  You begin to believe it is the right thing to do. This begins Tasya Vos’s descent into becoming a sociopath. She lacks empathy when she begins to remember a butterfly she killed as a child. To have true empathy for others requires remorse. Scientifically Sociopaths lack empathy for others and do not see them as an individual.  They do not feel sorry for harming them.   Tasya Vos was trained to kill for the agency to take out clients as business but what is interesting in the human mind is to not want to kill and to view others as human beings as ourselves. “Tate” says, “Pull me out,” revealing Michael’s killer to actually be Vos, who once again struggles to “self-terminate” and exit her host.  Vos seems to be struggling most of all with this particular instance which makes the audience believe she has empathy deep down. Tate also uses her own mind against her to gain control back.  This is a perfect example of how the human brain can be manipulated and one can lose themselves easily. Never underestimate the powers humans can have on each other’s minds. This film gave the perfect example to Embodied Cognition.  The mind is more connected than we think.  Our cognition can be determined by our experiences with others.

In the episode of Futurama “I second that Emotion” Bender the Robot seems to be extremely selfish and lack empathy.  The scene where they take the pet named Nibbler to the vet and he is standing there angry with his arms folded.  He does not seem to care as fry and Leela are worried for his tooth.  He says to the doctor “oh put him to sleep.” Then when they go back to the house to throw nibbler a birthday party Bender cheats at pin the tail by using his target. Further proving he does things for personal gain and popularity. He seems to always be making it about himself. The scene where you can see real emotion is when Layla is crying around her friends about bender flushing nibbler down the toilet.  He is watching tears stream down her face and he has his feet up smoking a cigar.  He seems to lack any empathy about what he has done. Leela even points out to him that he has no sympathy for anyone else. She says ” I wouldn’t feel so bad if bender knew the pain he caused me.” The whole gang watches as Bender is laughing at the TV about a man dying and tragedies of a rocket crash and the death toll rising. The others just can’t wrap their head around him not having basic “humanoid
emotions.  The empathy chip would force him to feel basic human emotions.   I think this was actually a great concept if we could do this in real life.  There may be more people out there who can feel what others feel and have empathy.  Maybe we would have less cold killers in the world.