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Howard Keith Henson (born 1942) is an American electrical engineer and writer on space engineering, space law (Moon treaty), memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology and physical limitations of Transhumanism.

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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.

Animal, Animals, Competitive, Generations, Giving, Person

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.

Children, Drug, Except, Neglecting, People

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Brain, Capture, Cult, Cults, Problem, Victim

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Attention, Effects, Feelings, Giving, Higher, Public

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Colour, Gullibility, Gullible, People, Skins, Stuck

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

Environment, Males, Mating, Opportunities, Opportunity, Wife

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.

Brains, Long, People, Years

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.

Family, Giving, Giving Up, Good, Home, Making

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Children, Error, Errors, Learn, Streets, Trial And Error

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

Cards, Cost, Credit, Small, Cults, Companies

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.

Example, Leadership, Papers, President, Reluctantly

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.

Lying, Perhaps, Program, Sharpen, Skills, Teacher

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.

Arabia, Fallen, Growth, Saudi, Suicide

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Attention, Brain, Endorphins, Primates, Status, Way

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.

Adults, Attitude, Correlation, Keep, Person, Rare Person

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

Ancestral, Environmen, Evolution, Psychological, Success, Today

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.

France, Generations, Iceland, Raids, Studies, Women

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Brigham, Children, Wife, Wives, Women, Young

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Age, Information, Network, Successful, Wind

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Afghanistan, Military, Movement, Related, Social

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