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Keith Henson

(1942) Engineer

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Keith Henson is an engineer, best known for Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Pontefract and Castleford.

Quick Facts About Keith Henson

Born: January 1, 1942
Profession: Engineer
Notable works: Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Pontefract and Castleford
Spouse: Carolyn Meinel

About Keith Henson

Howard Keith Henson is an American electrical engineer and writer. Henson writes on subjects including space engineering, space law, memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology, and the physical limitations of Transhumanism. In 1975, Henson founded the L5 Society with his then-wife Carolyn Meinel to promote space colonization. In 1987 the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to form the National Space Society.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Keith Henson

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

Children

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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…

Advantage

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

Biology

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

Attention

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

Children

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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and…

Behaviour

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

Afghanistan

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People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts,…

Accounts

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Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

Change

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Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their…

Bases

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Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the…

Arabia

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

Age

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If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading…

Degrading

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

Attention

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I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the…

Human

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

Children

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

Biology

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Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a…

Bonding

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

Attention

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Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of…

Alcohol

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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving…

Captured

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Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and…

Captured

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

Cost

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Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government…

Ends

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I much prefer the modern world.

Modern

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