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In Free Will, It’s the Free that’s Problematic

Posted in analysis of behavior, science, tagged , , , , , , on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So it’s not that will doesn’t exist; it’s that the free part is problematic — a lot of people see free will and say, “Well, you’re showing there’s no free will; therefore, people have no intentions or will.” No. There is will, and will can be shaped by a host of factors: your genetic background, [...]

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Darwin & Viktor Deak vs. Jindal, Huckabee and booga-booga

Posted in anthropology, astronomy, behavior, biology, brain, philosophy, politics, public policy, religion, science, social science, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the 6th edition of “On the Origin of Species” Charles Darwin lamented over the power of “steady misrepresentation” of the facts and observations of his work 150 years ago. Those were days when God’s grace meant you could be hanged for opposing what everyone knows was the “WORD”.

While there has been a steady [...]

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Darwin and experimental analysis of the behavior of markets

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, blogs, economics, finance, government, life, media, new kind of science, religion, research, science, social science, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Please run this blog through the Baloney Detection Kit that was published here in the last 90 days. I recommend you do it for every media byte but, a guy off the streets writing about our global financial crisis may need it more than others for obvious reasons.
There is a postulate that states, “People [...]

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Christakis, Rube Goldberg and Mythinformation

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, brain, intelligent agent, life, media, online advertising, research, science, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

They’re at it again. Yes they are… As part of the Rube Goldberg contingent from Mythinformation Central. From the people that brought you “you’re fat because of your friends” you are now presented with: “your genes influence who will become friends.”

They set up the straw man: that it is an error to suggest people are [...]

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Lie to Me* FOX debut

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, brain, hollywood, life, marketing, mathematics, music, philosophy, politics, religion, science, social science, speculation, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am so disappointed.

Mysticism returns to prime time TV with this inane crime stopper series “LIE to ME*” heralding the star (Tim Roth) and his team’s ability to read people’s faces to tell when they are lying about what. Crimes are just the medium for the law enforcement to clean up with all [...]

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CNN and Evil – Snivil…

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, brain, information theory, politics, science, social science, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Use your head! Not even the term “wet” is binary.

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Should Scientists (Complexity Dudes At That) Help Solve The Economic Woes?

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, economics, finance, science, tagged , , , , , on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Now here’s a MEATY discussion on Edge.org about the role scientists should play in helping improve the economic conditions.  Chew on this awhile.
Here’s one of my favorite chunks of the discussion lifted from George Dyson’s comments:
Brown, Kauffman, Palmrose, and Smolin have hit the nail on the head. But is it the right nail? When the [...]

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Why The Speed of Light is Finite

Posted in information theory, science, tagged , , , , , , on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I do wonder why the speed of light is 299 792 458 m/s instead of 400 000 000 m/s or 50 billion m/s.  I know it’s constant and like other constants the universe just sort of has them and299 792 458 m / s whether they are this value or that value, the point is, [...]

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Now you see it; now you don’t – Politics, reason and Jihad in Presidential debates!

Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, information theory, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Things are complicated out there. You may or may not be aware that your nervous system filters out the massive amount of data that your senses are exposed to. As a matter of conservation of energy (real and metaphorical) you are attending to very little of your environment based on your history and the current [...]

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Oh, Ben Stein… Don’t be that way….

Posted in analysis of behavior, information theory, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of my great friends and confidants has pointed out, in a non-chiding way, that one of my favorite authors, Ben Stein, has been doing and saying some disturbing and annoying things lately. This phase of his career started to get weird with the movie he produced and starred in called “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.”
Six [...]

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