Emotional learning can happen quickly... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/opinion/kamla-harris-double-standard-wome n.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk4.4hcS.MvOYs9WxONvb&smid=url-share
-----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of steve smith Sent: Friday, October 4, 2024 4:01 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] nice quote Emotions/Limbic systems evolve at genetic rates, institutions evolve at social/cultural rates (maybe the fastest significant change can happen/resolve is in multiple lifetimes?) but technology is advancing at must faster rates? Or is this wrong(headed) also? On 10/4/24 3:43 PM, glen wrote: > None of that is true, however romantic it might sound. Depending on > how one defines "emotion", that smells the most true. But the > mechanisms of emotion are as coupled to current reality as is every > part of our bodies. To suggest that, say, the Space Force or methods > like quantitative easing are medieval is just nonsense. Technology is > more democratized than it has ever been. Granted, it takes (a lot) of > work to familiarize oneself with something like how GPS works or how > to NOT click on that phishing email. But to suggest that it's > "godlike" says more about the person than it does about the state of > technology. > > On 10/4/24 11:16, Prof David West wrote: >> /"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic >> emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is >> terrifically dangerous."/ Edward O. Wilson. >> > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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