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Keith Henson
American
Scientist
Born:
1942
Anyone
Attention
Brain
Family
People
Success
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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.
Keith Henson
Generation
Animals
Other
Gives
Factor
Advantage
Primary
Over
Passed
Person
Information
Humans
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
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.
Keith Henson
Best
Good
You
Yourself
Relatives
Giving
Giving Up
Situation
Fighting
Possible
Genes
New
Protect
Also
Making
Up
Escape
Short
Dying
Your
Hard
Captured
Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.
Keith Henson
Members
Memes
Detector
Trips
Attention
Between
Induce
Cult
Intense
Behaviour
Interaction
Social
Successful
Social Interaction
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.
Keith Henson
Giving
Feeling
Kite
Higher
Had
Attention
Well
Effects
Than
Being
Anyone
After
Public
Who
Aware
Ever
Speech
The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
Keith Henson
Exclusive
Major
Cult
Sources
Brain
Rewards
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
Keith Henson
You
People
Skin
Gullible
Could
Stuck
Colour
Trained
Less
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
Keith Henson
Death
Family
Change
People
Pressure
Isolation
Thinking
Threat
Undergo
Friends
Friends And Family
Intense
Social
Loyalties
Sudden
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
Keith Henson
World
Cost
Small
Economy
Employers
Cults
Friends
Families
Victims
Companies
Even
Serious
World Economy
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.
Keith Henson
You
Learning
Intelligence
Rare
Older
Changing
Correlation
Possibly
Case
Adult
Advances
New
Attitudes
Fairly
Still
Person
Get
Any
Interested
Keep
Bright
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.
Keith Henson
Leadership
Example
President
Else
Papers
Kind
Someone
More
Reluctantly
Had
Leads
Am
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Who
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
Keith Henson
Think
Enough
Related
Evolutionary
Area
Deluded
Up
Anyone
Psychology
Who
Utopian
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.
Keith Henson
Way
Release
Status
Attention
Highly
Because
Chemicals
Causes
Brain
Rewarding
Social
Measure
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.
Keith Henson
Generation
Wealth
Half
Suicide
Arabia
Rapid
Per
About
Most
Due
Came
Fallen
Lacking
Place
Population
Population Growth
Growth
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
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