#ra

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

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #characteristics #evolution #our #promoted

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. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anything #bank #behaviour #both #children

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. ↗

— Keith Henson

#behaviour #brains #chemicals #flooding #generations

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success. ↗

— Keith Henson

#attention #brain #chemicals #improves #leads

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West. ↗

— David Hockney

#great #i #open #open spaces #spaces

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. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anything #else #example #had #i

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. ↗

— Keith Henson

#because #brain #causes #chemicals #highly

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved. ↗

— Keith Henson

#cults #current #environment #evolved #fraction

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families. ↗

— Keith Henson

#detection #families #family #family tradition #language

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. ↗

— Keith Henson

#behaviour #between #cult #detectors #induce