I was having a good talk with a friend today and we were discussing the concept of consideration. It was said that consideration is the action of empathy.

That might completely be the case, but I wonder now: is there an origin before empathy? Does perhaps awareness, or openness, precede the notion of empathy?

These concepts blend together, and in some ways we’re merely parsing words, but this line of thought does prove interesting. What is the singular conceptualization that leveraged will benefit us most as a species?