Keith Henson Quotes

• The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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• The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

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• The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

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• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

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• Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

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• Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

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• People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

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• People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

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• Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

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• Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

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• If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

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• I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.

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• I much prefer the modern world.

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• I can’t think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

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• Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

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• High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

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• Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

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• Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

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• Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

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Birth:	1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Howard Keith Henson is an American electrical engineer and writer on space engineering, space law, memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology and physical limitations of Transhumanism. In 1975, he and his then-wife Carolyn Meinel founded the L5 Society, which promoted space colonization and which was eventually folded into the National Space Society.

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