People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generatio…
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Howard Keith Henson is an American electrical engineer and writer. Henson writes on subjects including space engineering, space law, memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology, and the physical limitations of Transhumanism. In 1975, Henson founded the L5 Society with his then-wife Carolyn Meinel to promote space colonization. In 1987 the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to form the National Space Society.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Keith HensonEvolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing at…
As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing at…
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and los…
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People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.