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5.3 An Architecture Diagram for Human-Like General Intelligence 103 concreteness, but of course the architecture is intended to be extended more broadly. In the hierarchy corresponding to an arm, for example, the lowest level would contain control patterns corresponding to indiv...

…alled the metric entropy, Hy. These kinds of entropies have also been used to quantitate characteristic patterns of in human behavior as well. We have previously mentioned these measures as used in human experiments by Karen Selz, a Research Professor of Psychiatry at Emory Uni...

…ly when it came to what lay in store for them personally, what does that tell us about how our brains are wired? Is the human tendency for optimism a consequence of the architecture of our brains? The Human Time Machine To think positively about our prospects, we must first be...

…frica is the most genetically variable part of the world, especially the smaller the organism, hence parasites. African human populations are invariably more genetically variable than more temperate hominids, including today. The same rule applies more generally, that is, to alm...

… 2010. Franklin, Stan. Artificial Minds. MIT Press, 1997. Gilovich, Thomas. How We Know What Isr’t So: Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. Reprint. The Free Press, 1993. Gregory, Robert J. Psychological Testing: History, Principles, and Applications. 6th ed. Pearson,...

always--move from a human form to a reptilian-type form. There is the Mayan legend of the iguana. Lizard-like aliens had descended upon the Mayans. Their pyramids—their advanced astronomical technology including the sacrifice of virgins—were supposedly inspired by lizard aliens....

…wledge has been documented in all fields of scholarly activity, ranging from mathematics and theoretical physics to the humanities. This shift has both made possible and been necessitated by a need to understand complex behaviors. Although this project is primarily about the ways...

…52. Williams KD. Ostracism: The power of silence. New York: Guilford Press; 2001. Cacioppo JT, Patrick B. Loneliness: Human nature and the need for social connection. New York: W. W. Norton & Company; 2008. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Page |29 Epley N, Waytz A, Akalis S, Ca...

…cells, or neurons, that respond to both observation and execution of identical hand and mouth actions. Brain imaging in humans has demonstrated that our brains have similarly localized regions with similar properties. These areas respond to execution of goal-directed actions of t...

…netic endowment. The content of one’s thinking—the nature and quality of our ideas—is more nurture than nature. Without human experiences there could be no well-formed ideology, merely simple inborn reflexes based on instinct and genetics.* There is no gene, or combination of gen...

…rooxidans 1s thrilled. Who’s to say the bacterium is wrong? The fact that a machine has been given a fixed objective by humans doesn’t mean that it will automatically recognize the importance to humans of things that aren’t part of the objective. Maximizing the objective may well...

Invisible Forces and Unseen Powers: Gravity, Gods, and Minds Preface 1. Invisible Forces Operating on Human Bodies Gravity is an invisible force that holds us to the surface of the earth, and the fact that gravity is invisible does not place it beyond scientific scrutiny. Simi...

…ryone: How Darwin’s theory can change the way we think about our lives. New York: Delacorte Press; 2007. Dunbar R. The Human Story. London: Faber and Faber 2004. Dunbar RIM, Shultz S. Evolution in the Social Brain. Science 2007;317:1344-7. Beckerman S, Erickson PI, Yost J, Reg...

…rgets of revenge killings. These new data are entirely consistent with John Cacioppo’s argument that the content of the human gene pool has more to do with the reproductive success of one’s offspring than one’s own reproductive success. Cacioppo argued further that this genetic s...

“To understand humanity,” Icke continued, “you have really got to understand humanists reptilian past, reptilian inherited genetics. One of the most ancient parts of the human brain is known by science as the R complex, for reptilian brain. We get these traits—cold-blooded behavi...