Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
“I won’t talk about the details. Basically, we discovered the mind’s mechanism for making judgments in the cerebral neural network, as well as the ability to have a decisive impact on them. If we compare the process by which a human mind makes judgments to a computer’s process, there’s the input of external data, calculation, and then the final out
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Psychopaths reason but don’t feel (and are severely deficient morally).
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Two means have been discovered to produce depression in laboratory animals: uncontrollable punishment and isolation.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Some ideas are true and correct when applied to higher levels of abstraction. However, ideas that might use to lower classes do not translate cleanly to high levels. Though human psychology rests on the complex interplay between neurons, neural network rules do not apply. On the other hand, the regulations that govern a market economy do not extend... See more