Jason Silva on Following the Leader | Brain Games

one of the ways in which we follow
others is known as the deictic gates
deictic gaze involves us looking or
someone else’s looking I’m looking at a
person and they’re looking at something
else and they look concerned I’m able to
take on their perspective and find out
what it is that they’re looking at
contagious life and death I needed to
see what he was looking in case it was
danger what’s really interesting about
that is that that’s the the origins of
empathy come from this idea of looking
where another is looking because if you
look for another looks that you see what
he sees it to extent you feel what he
feels
in modern contexts cinema and story
wouldn’t work without this dying decays
if we didn’t have that ability to see
the world through the other’s eye
stories wouldn’t work so in a way yes we
are programmed to be followed that’s not
always a bad thing its original function
I think was to enable us to work
together to towards the common
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