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…ed. All this permanent thought art is made possible by the translation of ideas into symbols. Scripts and Symbols The world supports a huge variety of scripts split roughly into phonetic, representing the component sound of words, and pictographic, stylized pictures of the idea...

…t, to remake the Middle East as he and Begin wished to see it. If only because of the tacit assumption that the outside world, and especially the Americans, would sit by and let the whole drama play out as scripted, it struck me as an exercise in self-delusion. There was also th...

…rged in the late 1800s in response to a brutal reality. And that, too, was a part of my own family’s story. Most of the world’s Jews, who lived in the Russian empire and Poland, were trapped at the time in a vise of poverty, powerlessness and anti-Semitic violence. Even in the de...

…ll.” Prime Minister Erdogan has also declared more than a few times that the main obstacle to peace in this part of the world is Israel, once calling the Jewish state “a festering boil in the Middle East that spreads hate and enmity.” In this holy month of Ramadan full of blood o...

… states—one Palestinian, one Jewish—or a secular binational one, he seemed strangely agnostic. He said that in an ideal world one democratic state would be better, before adding that of course such a state would have to guarantee the safety and cultural autonomy of Jews. (One of...

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…ve cycle is built. 4.5.9 The LIDA Cognitive Cycle The simplest cognitive cycle is that of an animal, which senses the world, compares sensation to memory, and chooses an action, all in one fluid subjective moment. But the same cognitive cycle structure/process applies to higher...

…ouse from himself, with Trump as an intermediary, to launder ill-gotten money. "This," Wolff wrote, "was Donald Trump's world of real estate." Rybolovlev tore down the mansion in 2016 and sold off the property as three lots for less than the $115 million he had invested in it. To...

…sness. In (eds. Vohra, S., Spano, M., Shlesinger, M.F., Pecora, L., Ditto, W. ) Proc. 42 Experimental Chaos Conference. World Scientific. Hong Kong Mandell, A.J., Selz, K.A. (1992) Dynamical systems in psychiatry: now what? Biol. Psychiat. 32:299-301. Mandell, A.J., Selz, K.A....

…er might have expected) information, fake or not, is leaking all over the other Washington, information in the economic world has indeed been stockpiled, commodified, and monetized. This lockdown, David said, was “not all good, not all bad’”—depending, I guess, on whether you’re...

…. For decades, Saudi Arabia and Iran have competed for religious leadership and political influence across the Muslim world and beyond. Trump is correct, however, Rouhani needs a chance to act. V-BR Alireza Ittihadieh HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032217

…n a darkened theatre enjoying one of my favorite comedians at the Edinburgh Festival — the biggest arts festival in the world. I phone a friend who is also a fan and let them listen in. Perhaps I even use the camera and surreptitiously point the phone at the comedian. My live exp...

…wer; hopefully in a way less coercive than before. Meanwhile, the Arab Spring has raised the pressure on autocrats the world over to truly be good—or at least better. Though, even if they are, they can never ultimately get it right, as demonstrated by Mill’s example of Marcus Au...

…ert Ford from Damascus? Impose a travel ban on Assad and his family? Press the Europeans to freeze Assad's money? In a world of symbols, these steps may make an important point about American values. However, none of them will make a difference in how events play out in Syria....