Monday, October 8, 2012

On SEXES and LOVE

Helen Fisher tells us why we love and cheat:
http://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_tells_us_why_we_love_cheat.html

"Love consists in overestimating the difference between one woman and another" -Bernard Shaw

It's not a balcony that you "fall off", it's more like a razor's edge that you walk on; and you can fall in either side ... and it may as well take two to release enough of dopamine and oxytocin (or poetically put: Passion!) to pass that critical threshold and tip us over that edge ... the difference between something and nothing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhDuYfZa5dE
The War of the Sexes
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1139342.ece

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Flourishing

Flourishing is associated with dynamics that are nonrepetitive, innovative, highly flexible, and dynamically stable; that is, they represent the complex order of chaos, not the rigidity of limit cycles and point attractors.

Appropriate negativity is a critical ingredient within human flourishing that serves to maintain a grounded, negentropic system. The complex dynamics of flourishing first show signs of disintegration at a positivity ratio of 11.6

Human flourishing is optimal functioning characterized by four key components:
(a) Goodness, indexed by happiness, satisfaction, and superior functioning;
(b) Generativity, indexed by broadened thought–action repertoires and behavioral flexibility;
(c) Growth, indexed by gains in enduring personal and social resources; and
(d) Resilience, indexed by survival and growth in the aftermath of adversity.

Monday, August 6, 2012

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Norvig vs. Chomsky

Is human understanding necessary for making successful predictions?

Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI | Tor.com