Quotes by Keith Henson - Page 1

I much prefer the modern world.
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Modern
Modern World
Recycling
World
Prefer
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Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.
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Children
Wife
Young
Wives
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Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
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Humans
Sensitive
Exquisitely
Status
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The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
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Brain
Cult
Exclusive
Rewards
Major
Sources
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Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
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Games
Insight
Killing
Play
Least
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Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
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Age
Successful
Wind
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Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
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Children
Errors
Streets
Trial And Error
Error
Fatal
Potentially
Trial
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High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
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Opportunity
Males
Mating
Multiple
Wife
Additional
Ancestral
Opportunities
Status
Wives
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Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
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Afghanistan
Expenses
Massive
Military
Movement
Related
Social
Social Movements
Taliban
Cults
Movements
Result
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Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
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Colour
Gullible
People
Skins
Stuck
Skin
Trained
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Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
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Attention
Behaviour
Cult
Intense
Members
Memes
Social
Successful
Detector
Induce
Trips
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I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
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Deluded
Psychology
Related
Utopian
Evolutionary
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Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
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Cards
Cost
Credit
Employers
World Economy
Cults
Victims
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If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
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Aggravation
Degrading
Flying
Wonder
Airlines
Wonders
Unpleasant
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Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
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Attention
Effects
Feelings
Giving
Higher
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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
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Evolution
Psychological
Today
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Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
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Attention
Brain
Chemicals
Long
Release
Short Term
Term
Improves
Leads
Reproductive
Rewarding
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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.
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Characteristics
Evolution
Psychological
Acts
Ancestral
Slowly
Promoted
Reproductive
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Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
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Children
Detection
Family Tradition
Language
Lying
Window
Lie
Small Children
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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.
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Loyalty
Family And Friends
Intense
Isolation
People
Pressure
Thinking
Friends And Family
Loyalties
Sudden
Undergo
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Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.
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Teacher
Lying
Skills
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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.
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Leadership
Example
Papers
President
Anything Else
Leads
Reluctantly
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Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
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Attention
Brain
Causes
Chemicals
Release
Way
Highly
Measure
Rewarding
Status
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Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.
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Bonding
Brain
Capture
Chemicals
Cult
Problem
Victim
Based
Recruiting
Released
Victims
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Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
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Alcohol
Long
Long Term
People
Program
Recovering
Recovery
Rewards
Indefinitely
Programs
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The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
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Advantage
Animal
Competitive Advantage
Generations
Giving
Humans
Animals
Competitive
Factor
Passed
Primary
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Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
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Arabia
Fallen
Growth
Lacking
Population
Population Growth
Saudi Arabia
Suicide
Wealth
Due
Per
Rapid
Saudi
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Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.
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Government
Fall
Law
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I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
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Cults
Current
Fraction
Result
Substantial
Suspect
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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 generations.
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Behaviour
Chemicals
Flooding
Generations
Long
Long Term
People
Short Term
Years
Acts
Brains
Leads
Pleasurable
Repeat
Reward
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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 attitudes as you get older.
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Attitude
Adults
Correlation
Rare Person
Adult
Fairly
Attitudes
Rare
Bright
Case
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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
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Family
Home
Captured
Dying
Fighting
Genes
Giving Up
Protect
Best Good Yourself
Escape
Relatives
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Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
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Captured
England
Founding
France
Generations
Iceland
Carried
Stock
Studies
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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 losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
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Children
Drug
People
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