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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 losi...

Keith Henson

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 losi...

Tags: family

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 att...

Keith Henson

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 att...

Tags: intelligence, learning, you, bright

About Author
Howard Keith Henson (born 1942) is an American electrical engineer and writer. Henson writes on subjects including space engineering, space law (Moon treaty), memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology, and the physical limitations of Transhumanism. In 1975, Henson founded the L5 Society with his then-wife Carolyn Meinel to promote space colonization. In 1987 the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to form the National Space Society.

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

Keith Henson

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

Tags: today, evolution

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

Keith Henson

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

Tags: change, death, family

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Keith Henson

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Tags: leadership, i am, kind, president

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

Keith Henson

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

Tags: learning, family, children, language

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

Keith Henson

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

Tags: success

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 generation...

Keith Henson

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 generation...

Tags: success, people, reward, years

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Keith Henson

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Tags: action, brain, long