Hmm. I think the uncomplicated-toddler-love isn’t really mediated by “we don’t have separate selves” though. It seems like the thing going on there is structurally different from the sort of thing feeling empathy with electrons and corporations and hitlers.
(I’m sympathetic to both “there is something uncomplicatedly wholesome about toddler love that is good to find your way back to” and to “caring about every being because their life story is also mine and mine is theirs”, but I think the latter just requires a degree of reflective awareness that the toddlers don’t have)
Hmm. I think the uncomplicated-toddler-love isn’t really mediated by “we don’t have separate selves” though. It seems like the thing going on there is structurally different from the sort of thing feeling empathy with electrons and corporations and hitlers.
(I’m sympathetic to both “there is something uncomplicatedly wholesome about toddler love that is good to find your way back to” and to “caring about every being because their life story is also mine and mine is theirs”, but I think the latter just requires a degree of reflective awareness that the toddlers don’t have)