What is sensitivity?

[jajdude]

Here's a question I ask after drinking some wine. I'm a bit tired and the wine does that. I do not ask this as an intellectual thing. I suppose the common notion is that sensitivity is awareness and being easily hurt. Awareness is a fine word. I have no idea what it means. Easily hurt, though, calls your past. And your past involves you in every motion. It's very tiresome. I doubt this is sensitivity.

When insulted or offended or whatever, you store it up in the bank of memory, don't you? You use this old hurt next time in your talking to the person, the causer of the hurt. And we all do this. There's little sensitivity in us. We are working within rotting frames of the past. I believe sensitivity would dissolve all this, make it trivial and be keen to the present, not latch on to old conceits.

That's all I got for now.

[cafolini]

To have sensitivity, whether organic or inorganic is the ability to respond to stimulation. If you are looking for it, let me warn you that in the organic area you live in a marvellous world, desensitized to possible maximum, and optimized for hypocresy and utter entanglement. You might find it a lot more abundant in an electronic, inorganic, radio receiver.

[Calidore]

I think in a social context sensitivity = empathy.

[jajdude]

To have sensitivity, whether organic or inorganic is the ability to respond to stimulation. If you are looking for it, let me warn you that in the organic area you live in a marvellous world, desensitized to possible maximum, and optimized for hypocresy and utter entanglement. You might find it a lot more abundant in an electronic, inorganic, radio receiver.

OK, this makes even less sense to me than my first post. What is this organic and inorganic you talk about? Marvelous, sure. Hypocrisy, indeed. I'm not certain where you're at with desensitized. It's a nifty word, thrown around quite a bit. Is it true? I like utter entanglement though. I'll give you that. Hey, it's my thread right. Not really.

[BienvenuJDC]

I think in a social context sensitivity = empathy.

Sensitivity is feeling either your own or other's feelings, but empathy is solely being able to feel others' pain. One can be sensitive to anything, but it doesn't necessarily mean to have feeling of others.

[Jack of Hearts]

Senstivity is the ability of a subject 's' to discern the truth value of a proposition 'p' based on the sensible elimination of other relevant cases.






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