human cooperation :: biological basis revealed. Functional MRI scans have revealed a 'biologically embedded' basis for altruistic behavior, with several characteristic regions of the brain being activated when players of a game called 'Prisoner's Dilemma' decide to trust each other and cooperate, rather than betray each other for immediate gain, say researchers from Emory University... more in [context weblog] What do you think? [] links to this post 10:25:04 PM
It is always difficult to keep simple and clear. The world worships success, the bigger the better; the greater the audience the greater the speaker; the colossal super buildings, cars, aeroplanes and people. Simplicity is lost.
One is everlastingly comparing oneself with another, with what one is, with what one should be, with someone who is more fortunate. This comparison really kills. Comparison is degrading, it perverts one's outlook. And on comparison one is brought up. All our education is based on it and so is our culture. [...] To bring up children without comparison is true education.
I've been trying to turn a number of my friends into "bloggers," and build my own community. However, most of the examples of blogs out there are not of interest to my community, except as curiosity.
So, my mission is to find blogs that my community might be interested in, demonstrate the power and interest of blogging, and build a new blog community.
I'll first start with finding one other friend to participate. An achievable goal. (I think.)
This is a little scary. Like most disruptive technologies, klogging started very slow, spread like the common cold, and mutated as fast. But when faculty and students get ahold of something like this, it spreads like wildfire, mutates in surprising and dangerous ways, and makes archaic all we hold dear.
Can you imagine what they'll do with blogs and gigabit bandwidth? Community features and matrix computing? Syndication and the hundreds of thousands of home grown lab applications?
'Our simple models are no longer sufficient,' said an eminent game theorist, who is calling for human passions and quirks to be taken into account, too. Diana Michele Yap reports from Stony Brook, New York.
According to Shubik, game theory's math models pivot on a "math person" who is "personality-neutral and passionless," "individually rational" and "non-social," with "well-defined preferences and choice structures," and out of context. Math people are "poor approximations" of real people, he offered carefully.
With immense tact, Shubik also mentioned the existence of "serious doubts" about the "domain" of problems to which many solutions seemed to reasonably apply. "We can no longer avoid the interface with the psychologists, sociologists and social psychologists," he said.
