Sunday, 13 May 2018

Display motives

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Humans are often hypocritical creatures, saying one thing and doing another. There seems to be terminology for discussing our actual motives...
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Thursday, 19 April 2018

Daniel Dennett - Memes saved from extinction

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Dennett wonders whether Richard Dawkins’ concept of a meme has gone extinct. This is from February 2017. The blurb reads: Richard Dawk...
Thursday, 12 April 2018

Daniel Dennett - The Digital Planet 1998 (repost)

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I previously posted videos in an article titled: Daniel Dennett - The Digital Planet 1998 . Those videos were taken down - but it seems they...

Susan Blackmore interviewed by Bas Heijne

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From 2015. The blurb says: Susan Blackmore is interviewed by Dutch journalist and philosopher Bas Heijne. [...] In this video, Heijne and ...
Sunday, 1 April 2018

The Wired guide to memes

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Wired has an article titled " THE WIRED GUIDE TO MEMES " out. It is subtitled "Everything you ever wanted to know about Nyan ...
Saturday, 31 March 2018

The evolution of racism

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I've long believed that a proper scientific understanding of racism can help us engineer societies which are relatively free from racial...
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Saturday, 3 March 2018

Peter Richerson: Human Evolution in the Pleio-Pleistocene

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The full title is: Human Evolution in the Pleio-Pleistocene: A World Queerer Than We Supposed. Here Peter is mostly making the case that...

Memes from Russia with love

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I've covered meme warfare before, and have other articles about use of memes in warfare and by the miltary . There have been some int...
Sunday, 14 January 2018

Resource allocation theory

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A common class of problems which agents frequently face involve resource allocation. Organisms divide their resources between growth, mainte...
Saturday, 13 January 2018

Observation evolution 101

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I've written some articles about the evolution of observers and observations. Here I would like to try and boil those articles down to s...