That said, I imagine it would have been logical for a compensatory ritual to have developed over time.
Yeah, I mean that's just what societies do, you know? I think when doing historical/medieval fantasy, people often bring in those modern assumptions that pre-modern medicine and understanding, disability would have been insurmountable, but that's just historical untrue. So I think it's good when worldbuilding to consider that people have been adapting forever.
Epistolary fic full of jargon. So hawt.
IT IS HAWT OKAY. Always needs more acafic. I should totally take advantage of the fact that I have two characters actually doing that kind of research.
Do you see filaments as akin at all to mirror neurons, with some people having naturally more and others fewer?
I think so, yes! Perhaps not that this has a direct effect on people's ability to empathize with individual others, but that it goes more with a general sense of belonging in your community? So someone who has more is not more inclined to feel for people in themselves, but would attribute more importance to people who they view as "like them" in this essential way and to being like those other people... so maybe more a kind of sense of identity or even conformity than empathy as such. Though since magic follows psychology, the amount of filaments would depend on how a person feels rather than vice versa.
(I have no idea how this would work in a contemporary identity politics environment. Can't even begin to guess. I'm sticking with my historical setting!)
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Date: 2019-02-28 12:30 pm (UTC)Yeah, I mean that's just what societies do, you know? I think when doing historical/medieval fantasy, people often bring in those modern assumptions that pre-modern medicine and understanding, disability would have been insurmountable, but that's just historical untrue. So I think it's good when worldbuilding to consider that people have been adapting forever.
Epistolary fic full of jargon. So hawt.
IT IS HAWT OKAY. Always needs more acafic. I should totally take advantage of the fact that I have two characters actually doing that kind of research.
Do you see filaments as akin at all to mirror neurons, with some people having naturally more and others fewer?
I think so, yes! Perhaps not that this has a direct effect on people's ability to empathize with individual others, but that it goes more with a general sense of belonging in your community? So someone who has more is not more inclined to feel for people in themselves, but would attribute more importance to people who they view as "like them" in this essential way and to being like those other people... so maybe more a kind of sense of identity or even conformity than empathy as such. Though since magic follows psychology, the amount of filaments would depend on how a person feels rather than vice versa.
(I have no idea how this would work in a contemporary identity politics environment. Can't even begin to guess. I'm sticking with my historical setting!)