While FC rightly pointed out that selfishness plays a strong role in humankind's drive to know and be known, the goal that he saw drawing all this effort out of people was far more admirable. He envisioned that what people have only ever been after is empathy.

It is not an easily maintained vision, especially when you consider that so many people are eager to not know and to not understand; when you consider how many people are afraid of seeing truth and experiencing perspective. There is also the difficulty in admitting that the motives among those who do seek empathy could be tinged with selfishness.

But FC's ideas were formed in the crucible of the Internet. Looking at and experiencing that world-transforming development, he came to a new understanding of how the past had come to be and what the future would hold, in some form. In rapidly advancing and converging communications technologies, FC saw the opportunity not only to know, but to know instantly.

From there, his next proposition was a short but keenly deciphered step forward. If a person can know another person's thoughts instantly, then we are only a matter of degrees not paradigms from the opportunity to know all people's thoughts instantly. Our conception of time is changed. And if those people are located around the world, then space too is altered. As he put it:

"The eternal experience eliminates past and future, eliminating time. The universal experience in simultaneity destroys distance and at once possesses all space, thereby eliminating space.

For each man to experience all men in simultaneity is to be all time, to be all space. “That art thou.” It is nature knowing itself. It is the life living.

This is universal empathy."