Evan Thompson and Francisco Varela's enactivist framework establishes that organism-level sensitivity to conspecific distress constitutes a primitive form of intersubjective attunement, not mere mechanical contagion.
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Intersubjective attunement(as the type of connection being described)
When one person or creature becomes emotionally synchronized or connected with another—you pick up on and share what they're feeling.
Mechanical contagion(as what the statement argues is NOT happening)
A purely automatic, reflexive spread of behavior or emotion without any real understanding or feeling involved—like dominoes falling one after another.
Organism-level sensitivity(as describing how creatures respond to others)
The ability of a living creature (like an animal or person) as a whole to detect or react to something in its surroundings, rather than just a single cell or body part.