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Fluid dynamics key in cooperative evolution

by Edward Berge | Jul 18, 2018 | social networks, social organization | 3 |

According to this recent physics study, cooperative behavior is stimulated by literal fluid flow. “In a new study, physicists at the University of Notre Dame examined how the mechanical properties of an environment may...

Fairy tales are relevant to science

by Edward Berge | Jun 25, 2018 | civil society, concept mapping, evolution, knowledge modeling, meaning, metaphors, motivated reasoning, pattern recognition, social organization, sociology, storytelling | 0 |

Some evolutionary science for...

Saturday Subjective

by Mark H | Apr 28, 2018 | arts, cognitive dissonance, consciousness, emotions, empathy, framing, friendship, meaning, metaphors | 0 |

For something a little different to start your weekend, here is a glimpse into one man’s subjective world. He asks himself what consciousness is. He observes, “Life is fear,” yet his mind has found a way to...

A neuroscience love song

by Edward Berge | Apr 9, 2018 | behavior, biology, music, sex differences, social organization | 0 |

For a change of...

Kin and multilevel selection in social evolution

by Edward Berge | Mar 16, 2018 | biology, evolution, social organization | 5 |

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...

The evolution of pro-social institutions

by Edward Berge | Mar 16, 2018 | biology, economics, evolution, social organization, sociology | 0 |

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...

The Neurohacker Collective

by Edward Berge | Feb 14, 2018 | brain hacking, civil society, consciousness hacking, social networks, social organization | 0 |

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...

Why economics needs a new invisible hand

by Edward Berge | Feb 13, 2018 | biology, coevolution, complex adaptive systems, development, economics, evolution, social organization, sociology | 2 |

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...

A dive into the black waters under the surface of persuasive design

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 | 0 |

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...

Neural responses to media a strong predictor of friendship

by Mark H | Feb 1, 2018 | brain functioning, brain imaging, cognition, data analysis, friendship, neurons, predictive analytics, social networks | 1 |

“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...

Persuasion: Do you want to be effective or just feel righteous?

by Mark H | Jan 27, 2018 | argumentation, authoritarianism, behavior, civil society, communication, emotions, empathy, framing, limbic system, meaning, paradigms, persuasion, political orientation, psychology | 0 |

A recent article in The Atlantic reports fascinating research on the relative effectiveness of typical and moral-framing based approaches to persuading people of an opposing political orientation to see value in alternative...

Analysis of inept interviewer raises several interesting questions

by Mark H | Jan 25, 2018 | argumentation, behavior, evolution, gender, hierarchy, persuasion, psychology, rationality, scientific approach, sex differences, social organization, sociology | 2 |

Misleading and sensationalist news personalities have ceased to be noteworthy. They are the norm in American mainstream media. Interviewers strive to oversimplify and shape guests’ messages–tactics interviewees who...

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