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<div class="MsoNormal">Why is QAnon so seductive?  Why does it totally resculpt the emotional
landscape of people from Tyler Texas to Tokyo? 
Why does it change the way people see reality?  Why is QAnon as addictive as cocaine? And why
does it appear to be the fastest-growing religion in America?  Why is it giving headline prominence to one
of its believers, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene?. <o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">Because humans don’t go wild with anger against enemies that
aren’t human, enemies like the coronavirus behind covid-19.  It is hard to get furious at a virus.  It is hard to ladle out blame and to rouse
righteous indignation against a mega-molecule. 
There’s a reason.  We are
biologically built to blame our problems on other human beings.  Real flesh and blood folk with two arms, two
legs, two eyes and a head.  We are also
biologically structured to solve our problems by hating groups of our fellow
humans.  We are biologically wired to see
the leaders that head those groups as bad guys. 
And we are biologically built to despise their followers. <o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">To explain how blame is built into our biology,  let me tell you the story of one of my
favorite experiments—the seven rats on a hotplate.  The time was 1939.  The year that Hitler invaded Poland and
started world war ii. Neal Miller and John Dollard at Yale had proposed their
frustration-aggression hypothesis.  And
they’d apparently proved it.  <o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">What is the Dollard and Miller Frustration-Aggression
Hypothesis? The frustration-aggression hypothesis proposes that when you hit a
lab rat with frustration, the rat will turn its frustration into aggression.  Deprive the rat of something it is accustomed
to receiving and it will get pissed off. 
When frustration-aggression theory was tested in roughly 1950, the theory
bore up brilliantly.  Here’s one of the
tests.  You put a rat in a
bowling-alley-like straight maze with food at the other end. The rat runs
enthusiastically toward the food.  Once
you’ve run the experiment a dozen times or so, the rat gets used to this tasty
experience.  Then, if you put an
electrified grid in front of the food. 
The poor rat runs down the straightaway with enthusiasm.  But when his pink and naked front feet are
shocked by the grid, he stops in his tracks. 
How do we know the rat is experiencing something akin to human
frustration?  And where does the
frustration aggression hypothesis enter the picture?  Here’s where.  
If you put either another rat or a bottle brush that looks like a rat
near the site of the rat’s electric shock, the pained rat will beat the
bejeezus out of the fluffy target. 
That’s frustration leading to aggression.  The rat needs another rat or  something 
that looks like another rat on which to take out its rage.  Its rage at being stymied.  Stymied and hurt.  <o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">But does the frustration aggression hypothesis also work in
human beings?  In 1940, Carl Hovland and
Robert Sears tried out the frustration 
aggression hypothesis on us homo sapiens in a big way.  They hypothesized that when cotton prices
went down and farmers were prevented from earning the income they were accustomed
to, the farmers would find other humans to blame their problems on.  Those other humans would be folks below them
in the pecking order—African Americans. 
The scientists’ guess was that frustration would lead to
aggression.   So lynchings would go up.   Hovland and Sears went through the cotton
prices from 1882 to 1930.  And Dollard
and Miller’s hypothesis panned out.  When
cotton prices went down, the number of blacks swinging from trees with a noose
around their necks went up.  Frustration
leads to aggression in humans.  Score two
for Dollard and Miller’s insight into the biology of blame.   And Dollard and Miller’s peephole into the
forces of history.<o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">Then in 1962, Roger Ulrich and Nathan Azrin at Southern
Illinois University and Illinois Wesleyan University tried another variant on
the rat experiment.  A variant with even
more to say about politics and the forces of history than the rat and its
mini-bowling-alley lane.  The
experimenters put seven rats on an electrified grid and turned up the juice.  In essence, they put seven rats on a hot plate
and turned up the heat.  What did the
rats do?  How did they handle their pain?  They went through what microbiologists call
quorum sensing.  The six strongest rats
sensed who they were, formed an instant gang, and beat the stuffing out of the
weakest rat on the grid.  Yes, the six
strongest rats found a scapegoat.  They
found another rat they could blame their problems on.  So the biology of blame does not just control
individual rats.  It’s important to rats
in groups.  One of the future secrets of
QAnon.<o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">There’s one more thing. 
Another train of research discovered something the scientists called
altruistic punishment.  A ridiculously
difficult term.  But here’s what it
means. Humans and animals are constantly on the prowl for other creatures who
have broken the laws of the group.  And
we get pleasure from punishing these miscreants.  When we find a scapegoat we can blame things
on, we get a high from battering the poor rat or the poor human being who has
slipped out of line.  We get a high from
hating the poor soul we’ve decided to beat up on. We get a high of dopamine in
the ventro tegmental area, the striatum, and the anterior cingulate cortex of
the brain.<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/cnt/Why%20is%20Qanon%20so%20important--rats%20on%20a%20hotplate%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2002-04-2021.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a>   And dopamine in those brain centers is what
drugs like cocaine give us.  In other
words, having someone to hate is a pleasure.  
A pleasure built into our biology. 
Righteous indignation is like a cocaine high.  That’s another of QAnon’s secrets.<o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">Why would such a 
perverse twist of biology exist?  Our
brain uses the pleasure of blame to structure our  groups.  It drives us to accomplish what the rats
achieved on the hot plate once they’d picked out their scapegoat.  They bound together in a common cause.  More specifically, the pleasure of blame, the
pleasure of beating up the little guy,  binds
us together in pecking orders.  It binds
us together in status hierarchies.  In
case you’re not familiar with a pecking order, here’s a how pecking order works.  There’s a top chicken  Let’s call her chicken number one.   chicken number one, gets to go first in the
line to the feeding trough.  And chicken
number one has another privilege.  She
can peck every other chicken in the group.  She can get her jollies by taking out her
frustrations on any other chicken she wants. To put it differently, she can
have the pleasure of putting every other chicken in the farmyard in her place.
Chicken number two goes next to the food trough.  She can peck every other chicken in the
farmyard with one exception.  She is not
allowed to peck at chicken number one. 
Chicken number three gets to peck at every chicken below her on the
pecking order.  But she is not allowed to
peck at chickens number one and number two.  And chicken number four gets to peck at every
other chicken with the exception of chickens number one, two, and three.
Finally,  there’s the bottom chicken, an
unfortunate chicken who cannot peck any other chicken in the yard.  Not a single, solitary one.  The bottom chicken is the scapegoat.  The chicken other chickens can blame for
everything.  Or at least against whom the
other chickens can show the chicken equivalent of blame—a savage peck.  In this system, the anger roused by
frustration tumbles down the hierarchical ladder like a slinky going down a
staircase.  And guess what?  It gives the group a backbone.  It gives the group a structure.  It knits the group together into a primitive
superorganism.  It knits them together
into a larger whole that uses each chicken in the yard the way your visual
system uses the cells in your eyes to read this word.     <o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">Then there’s something else at work in QAnon and in the
Marjorie Taylor Greene phenomenon.  Yes,
human groups use aggression to keep their hierarchies intact.  But human groups also use collective frustration
and aggression for something else.  They
use it for unity.  And that unity comes
in handy in the competition between groups. 
Why?  Because groups compete  for status just like individual chickens
do.  They compete for standing in, guess
what?  The pecking order of groups.  Yes, groups compete to be number one or
number two.  And they compete not to be
the group at the bottom.  The way America
is being challenged for top position in the pecking order of groups by China.  The way the scientific community and its
hypotheses are being challenged for the right to declare what’s true by QAnon
and its conspiracy theories.  That
competition between the scientific community and the conspiratorial communities
is another competition for top position in the pecking order of groups.  <o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">The pecking order of groups and the pleasures of blame are
the reasons that politics gives permission to hate.  Politics tells us who it is permissible to
unload our aggressions on.  In fact, groups
identify themselves by who they loathe. 
They identify themselves by who they mock, ridicule, and attack.  Liberals gain their solidarity by hating
conservatives.  Conservatives feel the
thrill of oneness when they put down liberals. 
Democrats hate Donald Trump.  Republicans
hate democrats.  And many of us feel
animosity toward china, toward Russia, and toward Iran.  Three countries in which leaders and citizens
get their jolly’s by hating us.  The
Iranians even throw street demonstrations in which their main chant is death to
America.  And guess what?  We get pleasure from ranking on those we
hate.  Every headline reeking with
righteous indignation against a rival group or a scapegoat gives us pleasure.  It juices us with the ferocious joy of a
dopamine high.  It gives that high even
to Iranians chanting death to America.<o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">So why is QAnon catching on as a heady, exhilarating new
cult?  Why does it seem capable of
explaining everything?  Because i identifies
the rat on the hotplate that’s become the new scapegoat.  It’s identified the someone to blame.  It’s fingered an enemy to hate.  It’s pointed the finger at a  group whose members we can all peck at.  The QAnon enemy is an imagined global elite
that supposedly revels in raping children, holding satanic rituals, and even
eating children<a href="file:///C:/Users/ZK/Dropbox/cnt/Why%20is%20Qanon%20so%20important--rats%20on%20a%20hotplate%20for%20howard%20the%20humongous%2002-04-2021.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a>.  The elite that QAnon hates contains just
about every liberal celebrity in 
Hollywood, nearly every star in the Democratic party including Hillary
Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and chuck Schumer, and god knows what
global bankers.  Then there’s the silent
organizer around whom the QAnon cult says this alleged conspiracy flows, George
Soros.  George Soros, a billionaire
investor and philanthropist, comes conveniently from a group that’s been used
as the weakest rat on the hotplate since anti-Semitism was invented in Egypt’s city
of Alexandria 2,200 years ago. All of this is fantasy.  All of it is a lie.  Despite an occasional glimmer of truth.  But it sells. 
It’s viral.  To many, it’s irresistible.  Why? 
It gives us the pleasure of blame. 
It feeds us dopamine highs.  So,
by the way, does hating QAnon and pointing out QAnon’s lies. <o:p></o:p></div>



<div class="MsoNormal">Does the QAnon theory explain anything in the real
world?   It certainly tries. For example,  it claims to explain covid.  Covid, it says, is a bioweapon the
child-rapers came up with to subjugate the world.  Covid, it says, is a bioweapon designed to
subjugate you and me.  Oh, and covid is
also a hoax.  Says QAnon,  covid is an 
excuse to get you and me to wear the mark of the  beast—facemasks.  It’s an excuse to get you and me to jail
ourselves,  to lock ourselves up in our
own homes.  Covid, says QAnon, is an
excuse to get us to practice the habits of a totalitarian state.  Again, the elite that QAnon has pinpointed
does not exist.  George Soros and Nancy
Pelosi do not rape children.  They do not
worship Satan.  The probably don’t even
know each other.  But by imagining this
fictional elite and preaching its supposed machinations as truth, QAnon gives
its followers permission to hate.  It
gives its followers a human group to loathe instead of an invisible virus.  It singles out the weakest rat on the hot
plate.  And it gives us the dopamine high
of taking out our frustrations on another group of human beings.<o:p></o:p></div>



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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">with warmth and oomph--howard</span><br>
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From: Howard Bloom <howlbloom@aol.com><br>
To: pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es <pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es>; fis@listas.unizar.es <fis@listas.unizar.es><br>
Sent: Wed, Feb 17, 2021 8:23 pm<br>
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<div>let me ponder.</div>



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<div><span style="font-size:13.3333px;">with warmth and oomph--howard</span><br clear="none">
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From: Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es><br clear="none">
To: 'fis' <fis@listas.unizar.es><br clear="none">
Sent: Wed, Feb 17, 2021 3:33 pm<br clear="none">
Subject: Re: [Fis] Abstract--Electronic Symbiosis—Lessons from Bacteria<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0979611014moz-cite-prefix">Thanks Howard (& Plamen, Krassimir,
      Karl... and All). Please, consider the following two-pronged
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<div>Of all species that have existed on Earth, 99.9 percent are now
        extinct. Habitat destruction is the leading cause of
        endangerment and extinction. Introduced species -- those who
        migrate to a new area -- are the second leading cause of
        endangerment and extinction. You cannot put new species together
        to coexist happily (like hippie communes). So many cases of
        plagues and pathogens that have put other species to the brisk
        of extinction... A few easy cases I directly remember: Dutch elm
        disease by several fungi; Ash dieback by another fungus and a
        borer insect; traditional Grapevine in France, Spain, Italy,
        etc. in early 20th Century exterminated by mildew; the Irish
        potato blight; Bee hives knocked by Verroa destructor and by
        Asian wasps, Rabbits wiped by Myxomatosis, etc. etc.  In
        general, we call plagues and illnesses to that multitude of
        inter-species nasty encounters.  <br clear="none">
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<div>Establishing a fruitful inter-species coexistence in the form
        of Symbiosis is exceptional and takes a lot of "co-evolutionary
        work". And perhaps it also occurs socially. The great things you
        correctly describe have been accomplished yes, but being
        accompanied by major social crises and upheavals. Even today:
        the recent ugly events in your country (or the calamitous
        situation of my own country) are not a light reminder of the
        increased destabilization risks we live in. ICTs and AI imply
        major risks of social-economic disarray and discord, and a lot
        of "social intelligentsia" work will be needed to achieve a
        happier coexistence. The problem I see is precisely a parallel
        decrease of the adaptive "social intelligentsia" capability
        (including science, but not technology). What about climatic
        change, ecological crisis, resource depletion...? Why aren't we
        seriously confronting these challenges yet?</div>


      

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<div class="yiv0979611014moz-cite-prefix">El 16/02/2021 a las 0:23, Howard Bloom
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<div style="color:black;font:10pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">re: <span style="font-family:New;font-size:medium;">This biological argument is
          based on an exception. For </span><i style="font-family:New;font-size:medium;">most </i><span style="font-family:New;font-size:medium;">inter-species long term evolutionary encounters
          conduce to... extinction.</span>
        

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<div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">pedro, hi,  could you
            give me some examples of interspecies encounters leading to
            extinction?  to me, that would seem the exception to the
            rule. a cluster of different species living together in an
            ecological community benefit from keeping each other alive. 
            despite their habit of eating each other.</font></div>


        

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<div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">re: Plamen, thanks
            for the comment.  "</font><span style="color:rgb(7, 55,             99);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:transparent;">I wish we were smart enough
            to push it forward into practice.  </span><span style="color:rgb(7, 55, 99);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:transparent;">Are we?"</span></div>


        

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<div><span style="color:rgb(7, 55, 99);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:transparent;">hb: we often accomplish miracles with no
            consciousness of what we've done.  I hope that happens
            here.  </span></div>


        

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<div><span style="color:rgb(7, 55, 99);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:transparent;">examples of material miracles we've made but
            have failed to plan or see:</span></div>


        

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<div class="yiv0979611014MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New;">       
                </span></span><span style="">If
                you’d been born in 1850, your expected lifespan would
                have been 37.5
                years.  If you’d been born in the West in
                2000, your expected lifespan would have been 78.5
                years.  Chinese Emperors were willing to spend almost
                all of their wealth to achieve an extra four years of
                life.  But Western Civilization has added another
                40.  Western civilization has more than
                doubled the human lifespan.  No other
                civilization in the history of the world—not the
                Chinese, Egyptian, Muslim, Russian
                Marxist, or Roman—has ever pulled this off.</span></div>

 
            

<div class="yiv0979611014MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New;">       
                </span></span><span style="">If
                you’d been the poorest paid worker in London in 2012, a
                personal assistant, you
                would have earned what an entire tenement full of the
                poorest paid workers in
                London were paid in 1850.  You would have
                earned what seven Irish dockworkers made.</span></div>

 
            

<div class="yiv0979611014MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New;">       
                </span></span><span style="">If
                you gave a bunch of average Western kids today a
                Stanford Binet IQ test from
                1900, today’s kids would register as near geniuses. 
                They’d register an average IQ of roughly
                135.  That’s an IQ Jump of 35 points.</span></div>

 
            

<div class="yiv0979611014MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New;">       
                </span></span><span style="">If
                you were in an indigenous culture, one of those tribes
                that “lives in peace and
                harmony with nature,”  your odds of dying
                a violent death at the hands of a fellow human being
                would be ten times what
                they are in the West today.  Since 1650,
                Western Civilization has upped the level of peace by a
                factor of ten.</span></div>

 
            

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                </span></span><span style="">If
                you were born in 2000, your height would have been four
                inches higher than if
                you’d been born in 1850.</span></div>

 
            

<div class="yiv0979611014MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in;"><span style="font-family:Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New;">       
                </span></span><span style="">The
                Western System has lifted close  to a
                billion people out of poverty in a mere twenty years.<a shape="rect" name="_ednref1" title="" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span class="yiv0979611014MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="yiv0979611014MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a></span></div>

 
            

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<div class="yiv0979611014MsoNoSpacing"><span style="">however
                you are right.  there's always a chance that we could
                blow it.  or that we could built algorithms into
                military ai that ultimately decide that we are the enemy
                and need to be killed.</span></div>


            

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              From: Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
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              To: Pedro C. Marijuan <a shape="rect" class="yiv0979611014moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es></a><br clear="none">
              Cc: fis <a shape="rect" class="yiv0979611014moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><fis@listas.unizar.es></a><br clear="none">
              Sent: Mon, Feb 15, 2021 1:55 pm<br clear="none">
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                      Pedro, and your note about Michael Conrad.</div>


                    

<div class="yiv0979611014gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#073763;">Unfortunately, this
                      challenging era we live now is certainly a great
                      opportunity, as Howard suggests, but also at least
                      50% chance to surrender to what will come next to
                      replace us as individuals. But I know that Howard
                      has another receipt suggesting the development of
                      the global interconnected mind (the "Avatar" movie
                      idea) which is a nice goal we can evolve too, but
                      from what I have been observing in the world
                      during this pandemic, I conclude only that this
                      mind is of a weird and perplexed global being. The
                      only hope is that this state of illness will be
                      over within a certain period of time. </div>


                    

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<div class="yiv0979611014gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#073763;">Great books and a great
                      theory, Howard! I wish we were smart enough to
                      push it forward into practice.</div>


                    

<div class="yiv0979611014gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#073763;">Are we?</div>


                    

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<div class="yiv0979611014gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#073763;">Best,</div>


                    

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<div class="yiv0979611014gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On
                        Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:44 PM Pedro C. Marijuan
                        <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>>
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<div>Thanks Krassimir, it looks a good idea. <br clear="none">
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<div>Those parties sending their abstracts, we
                            should understand, are asking for
                            discussion.</div>


                          

<div>Then, here there are some comments on
                            Howard's.</div>


                          

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<div><span style="background-color:transparent;">"What’s
                              more, the cellulose eaters could defecate
                              material that was toast with butter and
                              jam to the cockroaches, the perfect food--
                              sugars and short-chain fatty acids..." <br clear="none">
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<div><span style="background-color:transparent;">Quite
                              right. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">Waste
                              of one species becomes excellent food for
                              another. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">I
                              was then reminded Jerry's recent comments
                              on entropy as being somehow analogous
                              with  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">"forms
                              of natural wastes, such as feces, dung,
                              shit, urine, etc." Well, it depends.
                              Entropy itself, in Gibbs' free energy,
                              becomes a frequent positive contribution
                              to the chemical reaction free energy (when
                              there is an entropy increase of products
                              respect reactants). And it often helps in
                              enzyme function too (e.g., by entropy
                              change in vicinal water that empowers the
                              enzyme for overcoming the activation
                              energy barrier). Things in nature usually
                              work in a series of conjugated, networked
                              yin-yang relationships--rather than
                              absolutes. </span>
                            

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<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">About
                                the substance of the abstract, Who
                                knows? Michel Conrad made a curious
                                relationship --tradeoff principle--
                                between adaptability, evolvability, and
                                information processing. An increase of
                                the latter diminishes the former. So, we
                                may find less capable people as they
                                rely more and more on external
                                algorithms or processing gadgets... is
                                it already happening with the current
                                generation, socially less and less
                                adapted precisely because of their
                                over-immersion onto "social networks"?<br clear="none">
                              </span></div>


                            

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<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">"If
                                all goes well, that will be the
                                relationship of AI and
                                humankind—symbiosis. Mutual
                                empowerment." Not necessarily. This
                                biological argument is based on an
                                exception. For <i>most </i>inter-species
                                long term evolutionary encounters
                                conduce to... extinction. <br clear="none">
                              </span></div>


                            

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<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">Gloom
                                and Doom!</span></div>


                            

<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">--Pedro<br clear="none">
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<div>El 14/02/2021 a las 16:57, Krassimir
                            Markov escribió:<br clear="none">
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<div><font size="4">Dear <span style="text-align:center;"><font face="Verdana"><font face="Calibri">Howard,</font></font></span></font></div>


                                

<div><font size="4"><span style="text-align:center;"><font face="Verdana"><font face="Calibri">Thank you for
                                          the abstract.</font></font></span></font></div>


                                

<div><font size="4"><span style="text-align:center;">You are
                                      right!<br clear="none">
                                      <br clear="none">
                                      Dear Pedro,<br clear="none">
                                      Maybe it is a good idea to discuss
                                      some abstracts in FIS list.<br clear="none">
                                      I think, the moderators of
                                      sessions may take a such decision.<br clear="none">
                                    </span></font></div>


                                

<div><font size="4"><span style="text-align:center;">Friendly
                                      greetings</span></font></div>


                                

<div><font size="4"><span style="text-align:center;">Krassimir</span></font></div>


                                

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<div><b>From:</b> <a shape="rect" title="howlbloom@aol.com" ymailto="mailto:howlbloom@aol.com" href="mailto:howlbloom@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Howard
                                          Bloom</a> </div>


                                      

<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February
                                        14, 2021 3:06 AM</div>


                                      

<div><b>To:</b> <a shape="rect" title="fis@listas.unizar.es" ymailto="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>
                                        ; <a shape="rect" title="pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [Fis]
                                        Abstract--Electronic
                                        Symbiosis—Lessons from Bacteria</div>


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<div style="color:black;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:10pt;line-height:normal;font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">i've
                                    submitted the following abstract to
                                    wolfgang hofkirchner for his digital
                                    humanism section of the conference:
                                    

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<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Electronic
                                            Symbiosis—Lessons from
                                            Bacteria</span></div>


                                        

<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Howard
                                            Bloom</span></div>


                                        

<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:13px;"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:howlbloom@aol.com" href="mailto:howlbloom@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">howlbloom@aol.com</a></span></div>


                                        

<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Author,
                                            The Lucifer Principle: a
                                            Scientific Expedition into
                                            the Forces of History</span></div>


                                        

<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Chairman,
                                            The Howard Bloom Institute</span></div>


                                        

<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Founder
                                            and co-chair, The Asian
                                            Space Technology Summit</span></div>


                                        

<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Former
                                            Visiting Scholar, Graduate
                                            Psychology Department, New
                                            York University</span></div>


                                        

<div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Former
                                            Core Faculty Member, The
                                            Graduate Institute, Meriden,
                                            Connecticut</span></div>


                                        

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<div style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Some
                                            say that we should not let
                                            humanity’s new electronic
                                            frontiers reshape us. But
                                            every time technology has
                                            reshaped us, it has upgraded
                                            us. To see how synergies
                                            with electronic systems like
                                            artificial intelligence can
                                            give humanity and humanism
                                            new powers, look at how
                                            bacteria have gained new
                                            abilities over the last
                                            billion years. They could
                                            have anticipated being
                                            annihilated by the new
                                            multicellulars and tried to
                                            stop multicellular
                                            formation. But the
                                            multicellulars did not wipe
                                            out their single-celled
                                            forebears. Far from it. They
                                            worked out deals with the
                                            multi-cellulars. And those
                                            cooperative arrangements
                                            gave both the microbes and
                                            the multi-cellular beasts
                                            whole new powers, whole new
                                            ways to make a living. Look,
                                            for example, at the
                                            cockroaches that first
                                            showed up on the planet 320
                                            million years ago. For 69
                                            million years, the
                                            cockroaches were limited to
                                            easily digestible food. But
                                            there was hard stuff all
                                            around them bursting with
                                            nourishment. That oh, too
                                            solid stuff was the tree.
                                            And there was no way that
                                            the digestive system of
                                            cockroaches could turn bark
                                            and wood into tasty treats.
                                            Then came over 33 species of
                                            bacteria and set up shop in
                                            the cockroach’s guts.
                                            Species like Paenibacillus
                                            lactis,
                                            Lysinibacillusmacrolides,
                                            and Stenotrophomonas
                                            maltophilia.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">[i] 
                                          </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">These
                                            microbial wonders could eat
                                            cellulose, the hard stuff
                                            that had previously made
                                            wood indigestible. What’s
                                            more, the cellulose eaters
                                            could defecate material that
                                            was toast with butter and
                                            jam to the cockroaches, the
                                            perfect food-- sugars and
                                            short-chain fatty acids. In
                                            exchange, the microbes used
                                            cockroaches as their
                                            transport and chewing
                                            machines. The cockroaches
                                            empowered by their bacterial
                                            colonists to eat trees took
                                            off on an evolutionary path
                                            of their own. Today we call
                                            them termites. And there are
                                            2,000 species of them. Which
                                            means that once the lowly
                                            cockroach allowed
                                            cellulose-eating bacteria
                                            and flagellates to turn its
                                            innards into a microbial
                                            dining hall, the newly
                                            empowered cockroaches found
                                            2,000 new ways to make a
                                            living. So, no,
                                            multicellular beings did not
                                            wipe out their single-celled
                                            progenitors. They gave them
                                            a rich new home. And they
                                            gavet he unicellulars
                                            breathtaking new abilities.
                                            If all goes well, that will
                                            be the relationship of AI
                                            and humankind—symbiosis.
                                            Mutual empowerment.</span></div>


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                                      <br clear="none">
                                      

<div><font style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial, helvetica;color:black;" size="2">-----Original
                                          Message-----<br clear="none">
                                          From: Karl Javorszky <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:karl.javorszky@gmail.com" href="mailto:karl.javorszky@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><karl.javorszky@gmail.com></a><br clear="none">
                                          To: 钟义信 <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:zyx@bupt.edu.cn" href="mailto:zyx@bupt.edu.cn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><zyx@bupt.edu.cn></a><br clear="none">
                                          Cc: fis <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><fis@listas.unizar.es></a>;
                                          Pedro <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es></a><br clear="none">
                                          Sent: Fri, Feb 12, 2021 11:15
                                          pm<br clear="none">
                                          Subject: Re: [Fis] 回复: New
                                          Year in China<br clear="none">
                                          <br clear="none">
                                        </font>
                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yiv9383325686">
                                          

<div>
                                            

<div>Please resend the 2
                                              papers, as my office
                                              software says it doesn't
                                              recognize the file format
                                              used.
                                              

<div>Thanks </div>


                                              

<div>Karl </div>


                                              

<div> </div>


                                            </div>


                                            

<div> </div>


                                            

<div>
                                              

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yiv9383325686yqtfd86286">
                                                

<div dir="ltr">钟义信 <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:zyx@bupt.edu.cn" href="mailto:zyx@bupt.edu.cn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">zyx@bupt.edu.cn</a>> schrieb am Sa., 13. Feb.
                                                  2021, 03:29:<br clear="none">
                                                </div>


                                                <blockquote style="padding-left:1ex;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);">
                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman">Dear Pedro,</font></div>


                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman"><br clear="none">
                                                    </font></div>


                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman">Please
                                                      accept my warm
                                                      greetings to you
                                                      for the
                                                      outstanding
                                                      contributions you
                                                      made to IS4SI
                                                      during the past
                                                      years and also for
                                                      the Chinese new
                                                      year..</font></div>


                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman"><br clear="none">
                                                    </font></div>


                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman">Here I
                                                      would send you two
                                                      documents of the
                                                      Calls, see
                                                      attachment, as
                                                      some progresses
                                                      made by China
                                                      Chapter for the
                                                      preparations for
                                                      IS4SI World
                                                      Summit-2021. I
                                                      would be very
                                                      grateful if you
                                                      could help us by
                                                      distributing the
                                                      Calls to FISers.</font></div>


                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman"><br clear="none">
                                                    </font></div>


                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman">My best
                                                      regards,</font></div>


                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman"><br clear="none">
                                                    </font></div>


                                                  

<div><font size="3" face="Times New                                                       Roman">Yixin</font></div>


                                                  

<div>
                                                    

<div> </div>


                                                    

<div> </div>


                                                    

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<div style="font-size:12px;padding:2px 0px;">------------------
                                                        原始邮件
                                                        ------------------</div>


                                                      

<div style="font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239);padding:8px;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;">
                                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yiv9383325686m_-6309265123909937711menu_sender"><b>发件人:</b>
                                                          "Pedro"<<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>>;</div>


                                                        

<div><b>发送时间:</b>
2021年2月13日(星期六) 凌晨5:43</div>


                                                        

<div><b>收件人:</b>
                                                          "fis"<<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>>;
                                                        </div>


                                                        

<div><b>主题:</b>
                                                          [Fis] New Year
                                                          in China</div>


                                                      </div>


                                                      

<div> </div>


                                                      

<div> Dear FIS
                                                        Colleagues,<br clear="none">
                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        With the
                                                        occasion of the
                                                        Chinese New
                                                        Year, let me
                                                        express our
                                                        collective <br clear="none">
                                                        greetings and
                                                        best wishes to
                                                        the FISers
                                                        there. We badly
                                                        need good news,
                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        and at least the
                                                        celebrations of
                                                        a New Year bring
                                                        us some sense of
                                                        hope <br clear="none">
                                                        and forbearance
                                                        in front of the
                                                        present
                                                        difficulties.
                                                        Probably, when
                                                        all <br clear="none">
                                                        of this recedes,
                                                        we will be able
                                                        to make fine
                                                        discussions
                                                        about social <br clear="none">
                                                        resilience...<br clear="none">
                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        All the best<br clear="none">
                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        --Pedro<br clear="none">
                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        -- <br clear="none">
-------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">
                                                        Pedro C.
                                                        Marijuán<br clear="none">
                                                        Grupo de
                                                        Bioinformación /
                                                        Bioinformation
                                                        Group<br clear="none">
                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a><br clear="none">
                                                        <a shape="rect" href="http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</a><br clear="none">
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                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        -- <br clear="none">
                                                        El software de
                                                        antivirus Avast
                                                        ha analizado
                                                        este correo
                                                        electrónico en
                                                        busca de virus.<br clear="none">
                                                        <a shape="rect" href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.avast.com/antivirus</a><br clear="none">
                                                        <br clear="none">
_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
                                                        Fis mailing list<br clear="none">
                                                        <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none">
                                                        <a shape="rect" href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br clear="none">
                                                        ----------<br clear="none">
                                                        INFORMACIN SOBRE
                                                        PROTECCIN DE
                                                        DATOS DE CARCTER
                                                        PERSONAL<br clear="none">
                                                        <br clear="none">
                                                        Ud. recibe este
                                                        correo por
                                                        pertenecer a una
                                                        lista de correo
                                                        gestionada por
                                                        la Universidad
                                                        de Zaragoza.<br clear="none">
                                                        Puede encontrar
                                                        toda la
                                                        informacin sobre
                                                        como tratamos
                                                        sus datos en el
                                                        siguiente
                                                        enlace: <a shape="rect" href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br clear="none">
                                                        Recuerde que si
                                                        est suscrito a
                                                        una lista
                                                        voluntaria Ud.
                                                        puede darse de
                                                        baja desde la
                                                        propia aplicacin
                                                        en el momento en
                                                        que lo desee.<br clear="none">
                                                        <a shape="rect" href="http://listas.unizar.es/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none">
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_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
                                                  Fis mailing list<br clear="none">
                                                  <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none">
                                                  <a shape="rect" href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br clear="none">
                                                  ----------<br clear="none">
                                                  INFORMACIÓN SOBRE
                                                  PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE
                                                  CARÁCTER PERSONAL<br clear="none">
                                                  <br clear="none">
                                                  Ud. recibe este correo
                                                  por pertenecer a una
                                                  lista de correo
                                                  gestionada por la
                                                  Universidad de
                                                  Zaragoza.<br clear="none">
                                                  Puede encontrar toda
                                                  la información sobre
                                                  como tratamos sus
                                                  datos en el siguiente
                                                  enlace: <a shape="rect" href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br clear="none">
                                                  Recuerde que si está
                                                  suscrito a una lista
                                                  voluntaria Ud. puede
                                                  darse de baja desde la
                                                  propia aplicación en
                                                  el momento en que lo
                                                  desee.<br clear="none">
                                                  <a shape="rect" href="http://listas.unizar.es/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none">
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<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
                                          Fis mailing list<br clear="none">
                                          <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none">
                                          <a shape="rect" href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br clear="none">
                                          ----------<br clear="none">
                                          INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN
                                          DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL<br clear="none">
                                          <br clear="none">
                                          Ud. recibe este correo por
                                          pertenecer a una lista de
                                          correo gestionada por la
                                          Universidad de Zaragoza.<br clear="none">
                                          Puede encontrar toda la
                                          información sobre como
                                          tratamos sus datos en el
                                          siguiente enlace: <a shape="rect" href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br clear="none">
                                          Recuerde que si está suscrito
                                          a una lista voluntaria Ud.
                                          puede darse de baja desde la
                                          propia aplicación en el
                                          momento en que lo desee.<br clear="none">
                                          <a shape="rect" href="http://listas.unizar.es/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://listas.unizar.es</a><br clear="none">
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<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">__________________________</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">Howard Bloom</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">Howardbloom.net</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">trailer for
                                            BRIC-TV's 66-minute film,The
                                            Grand Unified Theory of
                                            Howard Bloom,  <a shape="rect" href="https://youtu.be/rGkOkChazUQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://youtu.be/rGkOkChazUQ</a>
                                          </span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">Best Picture,
                                            Science Design Film
                                            Festival. Best Documentary
                                            Feature, Not Film Festival,
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                                            Vudu, and Fandango.</span></div>


                                        

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<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">Author of: The
                                            Lucifer Principle: A
                                            Scientific Expedition Into
                                            the Forces of History
                                            ("mesmerizing"-The
                                            Washington Post), </span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">Global Brain: The
                                            Evolution of Mass Mind From
                                            The Big Bang to the 21st
                                            Century ("reassuring and
                                            sobering"-The New Yorker),</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">The Genius of the
                                            Beast: A Radical Re-Vision
                                            of Capitalism ("A
                                            tremendously enjoyable
                                            book." James Fallows,
                                            National Correspondent, The
                                            Atlantic),  </span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">The God Problem:
                                            How A Godless Cosmos Creates
                                            ("Bloom's argument will rock
                                            your world." Barbara
                                            Ehrenreich),</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">How I Accidentally
                                            Started the Sixties (“Wow!
                                            Whew! Wild! Wonderful!”
                                            Timothy Leary),</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">The Mohammed Code
                                            (“A terrifying book…the best
                                            book I’ve read on Islam.”
                                            David Swindle, PJ Media),
                                            and</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">Einstein, Michael
                                            Jackson & Me: a Search 
                                            for Soul in the Power Pits
                                            of Rock & Roll
                                            ("Amazing. The writing is
                                            revelatory." Freddy DeMann,
                                            manager of Michael Jackson
                                            and Madonna), Best Book of
                                            2020, New York Weekly Times.</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">A Quartz Magazine
                                            Pro</span></div>


                                        

<div id="yiv0979611014gmail-m_5544572518841635374yqtfd51950"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial, helvetica;">Former Visiting
                                            Scholar, Graduate Psychology
                                            Department, New York
                                            University, Former Core
                                            Faculty Member, The Graduate
                                            Institute; Current Kepler
                                            Space Institute Senior
                                            Scholar.</span></div>


                                        

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