Re: [lojban] Re: other-centric UI

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Sympathetic and empathetic pains (etc.) are very real; a person experience them 
and can express this experience, perhaps in a way different from a personal 
pain.  His expression of this pain might even include a recognition of whose 
pain he is sym/empathizing with (though this is getting a little cloudy) -- even 
if that person is fictional, unknown, and so on.   But, in using 'da'oi uu 
Lindar',  is the speaker actually experiencing a happiness that picks up on 
Lindar's?  The examples suggest not.  The point remains that UI can be usefully 
uttered only by the person having the emotion (etc.), whatever its source.  So 
talk of other-centric UI reains absurd; the center is always on the experiencer 
expressing his experience, whatever its source. 


      

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