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Category Archives: Science
Pathological Altruism – Pt. 3,915
Regarding the phenomenon of ‘pathological altruism‘ — which is the root of white civilization’s demise — is the following study (hat tip: KMac): “The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation“, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (3) 7, by … Continue reading
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The Denial of Death
I’ve long believed fear of death is the driving force behind almost everything we do, particularly Culture-writ-large. And when it comes to culture, the magnitude of that driving force is proportionally related to how sublimated that fear of death is. … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, Psychology
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Behavioural Economics Bummer
In its predictive power and future for marketers in the fields of commerce and politics, the field of behavioural economics is… depressing… Depressing in that a science will likely evolve with an evermore powerful and nuanced ability to predict, for … Continue reading
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2015 World Happiness Report
A huge study of happiness (aka senses of subjective well-being) has evaluated all the countries in the world: The 2015 World Happiness Report is the third of its kind and is edited by a team of renowned academics and analysts … Continue reading
Posted in International, Sociology
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The Neuroscience of Despair
In “The Neuroscience of Despair“, Michael Begun applies philosophical anti-scientism (i.e., the reductionism inherent in neurobiological ‘total explanations’ of conscious phenomena, that is, the materialist philosophical position known as scientism) to the issue of clinical depression: “Together with the popular … Continue reading
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The Trip Treatment
The New Yorker has an in-depth look at medical research into psilocybin’s therapeutic affects. Rod Dreher has a thoughtful essay on the subject. The New Yorker piece includes this video of one cancer survivor’s experiences:
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Night Owls
In the journal Personality and Individual Differences is a 2009 study titled “Why night owls are more intelligent“. ABSTRACT: The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical problem in social and behavioral sciences. The Savanna–IQ Interaction Hypothesis suggests … Continue reading
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The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society
Most people confuse “self-knowledge” with knowledge of their conscious ego-personalities. Anyone who has any ego-consciousness at all takes it for granted that he knows himself. But the ego knows only its own contents, not the unconscious and its contents. People … Continue reading
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Out-of-Africa Migration Selected Novelty-Seeking Genes
From New Scientist: AS HUMANS migrated out of Africa around 50,000 years ago and moved across the planet, evolution may have latched onto a gene linked to risk-taking and adventurousness. The idea, first put forward by Chuansheng Chen at the … Continue reading
Emotions
A new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin finds that liberals are more emotion-driven than conservatives.
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