"We must be willing to be changed by what we see"

Eric Markowitz writes in his article “What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness” over at Big Think:

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.

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