 My name is Sam Battenin and I am the author of the Ligland-Sylphava, Narcissism-Revisibility. This is the second in a series of videos titled, The Predator Narcissist, You Are The Brain. Be sure to watch the first part. The Narcissist's ability to penetrate the defences of his victims is instinctual. It is intuitive, not the outcome of deliberative analysis, not even the outcome of maliciousness or evil. The Narcissist holds in on other people's vulnerabilities as a tiger mauls a strain weekend gazelle. The Narcissist leverages his target's fears and neediness the way a virus breaches cellular defences and then uses the cell's machinery to replicate. The Narcissist taunts, abuses, torments, harasses and stalks his prey because it's fun, and imbues him with a sense of pleasurable omnipotence. Acting this way is in the Narcissist's nature. It's an integral and crucial part of who he is. It is his essence. The Narcissist's X-ray vision, which we mentioned in the previous part, is strictly limited to the traits, qualities and behaviors of his good via natural victims that are useful in subjugating these victims and converting them into sources of Narcissistic supply. The Narcissist arrested personal development, his massive psychological defences, his poor reality test, his grandiose, and his cognitive deficits render him incapable of true, profound and comprehensive insight into others and into the human condition in general. So contrary to widely, widely held views and even to the diagnostic and statistical manual's criteria, Narcissist and psychopaths may actually possess empathy. They may even be hyper-empathic, attuned to the minutest signals emitted by their victims and endowed with the aforementioned penetrating X-ray vision. Narcissist and psychopaths tend to abuse their empathic skills by employing their empathy exclusively for personal gain, the extraction of narcissistic supply, or in the pursuit of antisocial and sadistic goals. Narcissist and psychopaths regard their ability to empathize as yet another weapon in their arsenal. There are two possible pathological reactions to childhood abuse and trauma. One can become codependent, or one can become a narcissist or a psychopath. Both solutions, both reactions to childhood abuse and trauma, involve fantasy as a defense mechanism. The codependent has a pretty realistic assessment of herself, but her view of others is fantastic. The narcissist's self-image and self-deception are delusional and grandiose, but his penetrating view of others is blood-curlingly accurate. I suggest to label the narcissistic psychopath's version of empathy called empathy, akin to cold emotions felt by psychopaths. The cognitive element of empathy is there with narcissists, but not so its emotional correlate. In other words, the narcissist empathizes through his mind, through his brain, not through his heart. It is consequently a barren, detached, and cerebral kind of intrusive gaze, devoid of compassion and compulsion, and a feeling of affinity with one's fellow humans. Narcissists and psychopaths also appear to be empathizing with their possessions, objects, pets, and other sources of narcissistic supply or material benefits. They empathize with their nearest and nearest, significant others, friends and associates, only when they can derive some benefit from them. But this is not real empathy. It is a mere projection of the narcissist or psychopath's own insecurities and fears, needs and wishes, fantasies and priorities onto others. This kind of displayed empathy usually vanishes the minute its subject seizes to play a role in the narcissist or psychopath's life and in his psychodynamic processes. Cold empathy evokes the concept of uncanny value, coined in 1970 by the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. Mori suggested that people react positively to androids, human-like robots. For as long as these androids differ from real humans in meaningful and discernible ways. But the minute these contractions, the minute these robots come to resemble humans too much, come to resemble humans uncannily, though imperfectly, human observers tend to experience repulsion and other negative emotions, including overwhelming fear. So as long as the robots are easily distinguishable from humans, they are actually liked and loved. But the minute they become too human, they are feared and they revolt. They provoke revulsion. The same applies to psychopathic narcissists. Psychopathic narcissists are mere perfect imitations of humans. But lacking empathy and emotions, they are not exactly there, they are not exactly human. Psychopaths and narcissists strike their interlocutors as being some kind of alien life forms or artificial intelligence. In short, akin to humanoid robots or androids. When people come across narcissists of psychopaths, the uncanny value reaction kicks in. People feel, for some reason, which they cannot put a finger on, they feel revolted, repelled, scared. They can't put a finger on it, as I said. What is it that provokes these negative reactions? They don't know. But after a few initial encounters, they tend to keep their distance. They realize, instinctually and intuitively, that something is frightfully wrong and potentially ominous.