Axiomempiricalv1
People in different emotional states cannot accurately
People in different emotional states cannot accurately simulate the preferences and perspectives of their selves in other emotional states.
Why This Is an Axiom
Loewenstein's hot-cold empathy gap is an empirical finding about the limits of self-knowledge across emotional states. This cannot be derived from other axioms — it is a discovered constraint on human cognition that explains why long-term consequence thinking is structurally difficult.