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... I have decided to just post my nuggets that I have taken away from Robert B. Laughlin's The Crime of Reason.

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Most entertainment is the celebration of disposable knowledge. In fact, when we are relaxing we avoid useful information. This is why some people do not like my Facebook posts and Twitter updates. They are on these technologies to relax and I am confronting them with potential useful information. (Sorry, but I do not plan to stop. Just unfriend or unfollow me, I am really OK with it.) Let me quote from the book, "Soap operas are enjoyable because their intellectual maintenance costs are low."

All advertising is information you do not want to see. "Advertising is Fun's evil twin brother. The two go everywhere together." If you want to enjoy yourself from free you have to accept advertising.

One would believe that all Google Books scans were freely available.

...in their use of the commons, the Itza' break free of the textbook ‘resource exploitation' frame by means of one of the fundamental orientations of human cognition: the tendency to believe in supernatural entities. (See Atran's 2002 book In Gods we Trust.) Atran and Medin show that the Itza' do not treat forest resources as mere ‘objects of a payoff matrix' (as perhaps some of their neighbours do), but rather ‘as intentional, relational entities, like friends or enemies'. For the Itza', the spirits of the forest have supernatural powers of knowledge. Villagers believe that if they fail to respect the kind of reciprocal relationship with these spirits that would be expected of any human social relationship, they risk being punished. These beliefs are reflected in behaviour patterns that turn out to be the most sustainable of these three neighbouring ethnic groups.

 * http://twit.tv/floss97 about http://exist.sourceforge.net/ 
   * example: http://history.state.gov/
 * http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4301.html
   * http://www.amazon.com/Building-Social-Web-Applications-Establishing/dp/0596518757/
   * interview with Jon Udell
   * at ~22:30 - Jon: ~"an application" can be accomplished by a convention
   * noticings (Flickr game) - Activity Stream - Oauth - OpenID
 * http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4289.html
   * panel discussion of spectrum: cognitive radio, FCC, policy, lots of complicated stuff
                  

The psychologists who are skeptical of religion being an adaptation, such as Scott Atran, nevertheless argue that the basal intuitions make supernaturalism compelling to the human race in a way that is impossible to eliminate. I have pointed to data which shows that though organized religion has collapsed in much of Europe, the slack has been taken up more by unaffiliated theism than atheism. The star in The Faith Instinct is the horizontal and integrative dimension of religion, but it seems that in the developed world a combination of rampant pluralism as well as a general weakening of organized religions is breaking bonds which tie people together in a sacred body. Rather, it is a more atomistic faith instinct on the individual level which persists once the communal aspect is stripped away, a world of ghosts, energies and spirits. The future may be Sedona and not Ethical Culture

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• So far as I can tell, no one has looked in to the same person having different beliefs at different times and in different contexts. That is my own experience. Christian scripture at least acknowledges this cf John 20:27-29
• Dileep George and Jeff Hawkins' Hierarchical Temporal Memory model provides a hard AI implementation rooted in the neural circuitry of the neocortex that demonstrates how beliefs are affected by context and change through time.

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):  (learn more)
restart protection, space sextant, digital autopilot, landing radar, 
program alarms, rendezvous radar, reaction thrusters, scanning telescope, 
braking phase, inertial platform, descent engine, human spaceflight, 
powered descent, erasable memory, pilot opinion, gimbal lock, 
descent stage, abort button, flying qualities, guidance computer
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Neil Armstrong, North American, World War, Age of Systems, 
Chris Kraft, David Scott, Jack Garman, Space Task Group, Michael Collins, 
Scott Crossfield, Robert Chilton, Project Apollo, Edwards Air Force Base, 
Joe Shea, Aaron Cohen, Alan Shepard, Don Eyles, Draper Laboratories, 
Floyd Bennett, Eldon Hall, Charlie Duke, Mission Control, Deke Slayton, 
United States, Mercury Seven

Bob Keteyian has been counseling through the communication styles lens, focusing on the natural language of the client. This approach relies on the inherent processing abilities of each individual and is naturally validating. Each of us is unique and therefore has a unique communication style, which is related to our learning style.

Learning styles theory is at the base of the communication styles approach. The fundamental question Bob asked many years ago was this: How are learning styles reflected in interpersonal communication? Thinking in words, images, or feelings reflects some of the common, inherent differences that drive individual communication styles. It also helps explain the confusion and communication breakdowns that so readily occur. When you solve the communication style conflicts in relationships, you increase collaboration and give clearer definition to other personal and relational issues.