This discussion is about the empathetic mechanism of novels where we focused on the author’s mind system for further review, based on discussing the theory of Fundamental Informatics (FI) that plays a role in ideology trends or Neocybernetics. In the past, analysis of novels and literature in Japan was mainly philological and structuralist studies. Therefore in this discussion, we took the author-reader relationship as an informative phenomenon for system-theoretic study from a constructivism perspective. Empathy is created in novels in two ways. One hypothesizes a fictional reader, and the other builds a fictional world to create a certain type of emotional complicity with its readers that conceives a hypothetical process creating a simulated-objective sharing of confidentiality tinged. This discussion made clear that within the author’s internal mind system there was nested feedback that went through simulated-objectivity in both a top-down and bottom-up mutual mind system and social system.

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