Posted in analysis of behavior, online advertising, politics, social networks, tagged autonomous man, behavior, Copernicus, Darwin, meaning, will power on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Consider that Ernest Jones, the colleague and biographer of Sigmund Freud has said that science has dealt three heavy blows to mankind’s self-love (narcissism; separation above and from other animals) above all else. One was the cosmological and it was dealt by Copernicus; the second was biological and it was dealt by Darwin; [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, religion, social science, tagged behavior, Bush, Cyclone, follow the consequences, Katrina, Myanmar, superstition on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Nargis was fate!
May 9, 2008
With a gaping look of angst similar to what played out during the Katrina catastrophe in this country, the heads of state around the world are trying to “help” Myanmar’s military ruler, Than Shwe, respond to Cyclone Nargis.
Problems abound.
Over 100,000 people are dead; millions homeless and starving
Than Shwe is a [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, cellular automata, economics, information theory, tagged behavior, nks, wolfram, automata, model, computer models of behavior on May 3, 2008 | No Comments »
As I prep for a summer in Vermont to study NKS and automata, I’m starting to build research and project concepts. My focus, as it stands now, is to some how take concepts from behaviorism (schedules of reinforcement, operants, rewards and punishers) and use automata to study them computationally. This is not trivial nor is [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, tagged behavior, neural activity, analogies, circuits, HP, discovery, flow, consciousness, attention on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Typically I am put off by analogies but consider…
Scientific symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit element to compliment resistors, capacitors and inductors. The fourth circuit, which would make it possible to build more complex electronic devices was theorized to exist by Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, tagged behavior, complexity, conditioning, consequences, fear, home, learning, magical thinking, office, politics, questioning, Statistics, superstition, training, value on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On any given day in the US in 2008 an average of about 148,000 people will die. Yawn. As the population swells it will grow larger. Yawn. As the population struggles with food, water, disease, contamination and war, those numbers will fluctuate higher and higher. Yawn. For many of us the numbers are so [...]
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Polygamist sect conditioned girls from birth
Washington Times - 1 hour ago
By Valerie Richardson The 16-year-old girl whose phone call led to the massive raid on a West Texas polygamist compound was repeatedly beaten and sexually abused by her much-older husband, according to state documents released yesterday.
Teen mothers reported at polygamist sect’s compound Los Angeles Times
Papers detail [...]
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Check out this fun read on a genetic robots that “evolved” lying behavior.
Pretty remarkable, but not all that surprising, that it only took 50 generations to get complex communication based on selection by consequences in only 30 “genes”.
~R
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After a prodding from a pal, I decided to apply to the Wolfram Science NKS Summer School. NKS is a fun and exciting research area and Mathematica rocks. I have done some preliminary research in trying to merge automata to experimental analysis of behavior. Three solid weeks of study and interaction with others [...]
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The story about an Atlanta citizen’s self built and deployed “robocop” is a great example in our culture of us lacking a way to talk about behavior.
This story is rich with very clear behaviors and selection by consequences. A great situation to analyze because of its clarity in the details and its implications for public [...]
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One of the biggest misconceptions, or non-truths, in business is the idea that there is an agent of innovation. There is no individual innovator, an innovative business, an innovative group that is the cause or source of innovation. There is no agent capable of manufacturing innovation.
That’s a bold statement from someone (me!) who used to put “innovator” [...]
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