In “What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness,” Markowitz writes the following:
We tell our daughters that kindness is the most important thing in the world. But how can we be kind if we are not first awake? To be kind, we must first notice. To notice, we must care. And to care, we must be willing to be changed by what we see. This is the cost and the gift — of consciousness.
One thing to note, the Hacker News comments makes the case this article was written by an LLM. I see the telltale signs, as well: the pattern, the beats. However, does that take away from the core tenet this quote points to? It is human to be changed by our environment and the people in it.