Keith Henson
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Keith Henson
Howard Keith Hensonis an American electrical engineer and writer on space engineering, space law, memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology and physical limitations of Transhumanism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
compulsive gamblers rewards step unless
The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.
iceland generations france
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.
teacher lying skills
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.
recovery people long
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.
aggravation flying wonder
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
cards cost credit
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
brain problem victim
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.
suicide growth population
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.
brain attention way
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.
evolved humans
Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
exclusive major sources
The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
areas deluded related
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
environment fraction human result suspect
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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The picture that emerges for humans in the previous several million years is that of a social primate living in small bands and villages.