by Edward Berge | Mar 16, 2018 | biology, evolution, social organization
In the “development and evolution” thread on Thompson, Paul dismissed and contrasted him with “people who actually study organisms.” Hence my latest referenced articles are by exactly those people that do. And even among the experts in the...
by Edward Berge | Mar 16, 2018 | biology, economics, evolution, social organization, sociology
From this article in Evonomics (aka evolutionary economics). Some excerpts: “There is something very natural about prioritizing your family over other people. There is something very natural about helping your friends and others in your social circle. And there...
by Edward Berge | Feb 14, 2018 | brain hacking, civil society, consciousness hacking, social networks, social organization
Good article discussing an interview except with Jordan Greenhall on global collapse, with that excerpt also provided. We are headed for collapse unless we as a species upgrade our decision making by “becoming much better at self-organizing into large-scale...
by Edward Berge | Feb 13, 2018 | biology, coevolution, complex adaptive systems, development, economics, evolution, social organization, sociology
In this clip Hartmann interviews David Sloan Wilson on his new article by the above name. A new economics needs a new foundation from the typical and shopworn invisible hand proposed by Adam Smith. That new hand is applying evolutionary theory to the topic. David S....
by Mark H | Feb 11, 2018 | addiction, algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, attention, attention economy, behavior, brain, brain functions, brain hacking, cognition, confirmation bias, consciousness, consciousness hacking, data analysis, decision making, deep learning, economics, emotional memory, emotions, framing, in-group bias, interaction design, interface, limbic system, machine learning, metaphors, motivated reasoning, neural hijacking, neural programming, neurons, pattern recognition, persuasion, persuasion, political orientation, psychology, rationality, social networks, storytelling, subliminal stimuli
A Guardian article last October brings the darker aspects of the attention economy, particularly the techniques and tools of neural hijacking, into sharp focus. The piece summarizes some interaction design principles and trends that signal a fundamental shift in...
by Mark H | Feb 1, 2018 | brain functioning, brain imaging, cognition, data analysis, friendship, neurons, predictive analytics, social networks
“The findings revealed that neural response similarity was strongest among friends, and this pattern appeared to manifest across brain regions involved in emotional responding, directing one’s attention and high-level reasoning. Even when the researchers...
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