Keith Henson
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
years long people
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.
people skins gullible
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
loyalty thinking people
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
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.
children people drug
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
exclusive major sources
The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
evolved humans
Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
giving feelings kites
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.
children wife young
Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.
president paper example
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.