People leave more behind them than a name. Like her fictional protagonist Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley is survived by her creation: Frankenstein took on a life of his own within our collective imagination (Figure $15). Such legacies, and all the many other ways in which peop...
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of non-familial sociality, we may now add physiological benefits. A 1979 population-based study showed that adults lacking social ties were 1.9 to 3.1 times more likely to die during a 9-year follow-up than those who had more social contacts, all else being equal (2). Since then,...
While “Jane Doe #3” is unidentified in this week’s court filing, her story appears to track with that of a woman who sued Epstein in 2009 and settled with him later that year. She apparently granted an on-the-record interview to Britain's Daily Mail in 2011. Some of the fascinat...
276 14 Representing Implicit Knowledge via Hypergraphs Cognitive Equation Principle: In an intelligent system, many abstract patterns that are present in the system at a certain time as patterns among other Schema and Concepts, will at a near-future time be present in the system...
no contradiction. Indeed, China is now experiencing its own cultural renaissance, fueled by its new affluence. The duality of the Chinese story is reflected in the West's schizophrenic response to it. The Nixon administration eagerly sought better relations with China under Mao,...
6.6 Analysis and Synthesis Processes in CogPrime 115 Where analysis is concerned: e PLN inference, acting on declarative knowledge, is used for estimating the probability of the implication in the cognitive schematic, given fixed C, P and G. Episodic knowledge is also used in t...
23 Article 7. Military Review An Old Man’s Thoughts on War and Peace Edward Bernard Glick May-June 2011 -- WHEN I WAS a young man in graduate school, two books impressed me mightily. They still do. One is Konrad Lorenz’s On Aggression. An M.D. and a Ph.D. and a 1973 Nobel la...
you would be told, 'This is a hand, you have a body,' and then you would have an interpretation of that experience, which you would call a thought. And then you would also be told, 'This is your body. You have a mind. You’re Indian. And you come from a Hindu family.’ All social c...
Endnotes: Chapter 4 Recommended Books Chagnon, N. (1996). Yanomamo. 5th Edition. Harcourt Brace. Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. (2009). Worse Than War. New York: Public Affairs. Jones, A. (2010). Genocide: a comprehensive introduction. New York: Routledge. Kiernan, B. (2007). Bloo...
17 savings account, and more likely to bet the farm on a bad investment. But the bias also protects and inspires us: it keeps us moving forward rather than to the nearest high-rise ledge. Without optimism, our ancestors might never have ventured far from their tribes and we migh...
doesn’t make sense to most sane people but after all of the time spent with them, I had gotten to understand a few of their quirky ways. Even if I didn’t agree with them, they knew I would for their sake of opinion. What did it matter anyways I thought, I had been degraded in eve...
… “revolutionary democra- cy," or “illiberal democracy." 6. Return of the leader for life: Among the changes invariably instituted by modern authoritarians is the de facto or de jure removal of constitution- al limits on presidential terms. Preventing the concentration of power i...
there was significant activation in the nucleus accumbens. They felt an immediate honey hit, joy over the rival’s pain. The higher the activation in this reward area, the more likely they were to choose the option of watching the rival experience pain — like watching a public exe...
In our own age, a fundamental conflict lingers as well. This is the struggle between individual liberty and connection. We have to ask a version of Hayek’s question: Are we happier, better off, more justly fulfilled through ceaseless linkage to the fast systems all around us? The...
man, in response to simple or complex historical causes, profoundly changes his technical equipment.”25 Control of water in those ancient ages and control of information in our own are not so different. We are in the midst, after all, of a change in our own “technical equipment....