Tag: evolution
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Hollywood Heatwave
I’ll try to blog more often, and in shorter format. There’s so much happening right now that I procrastinate on blogging, then I feel like there’s too much to write about, so I don’t write anything. The book (If These Fists Could Talk) is basically done. I’ve blogged constantly about the ROBA Hypothesis; feel free…
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A Thorndike Approach to the Science of Violence
I just finished Lynn Thorndike’s History of Magic and Experimental Science, an 8-volume series with 5706 pages total (not including indices). I started reading it April 18, 2023 and got through three quarters of it in 8 months. I finished it today August 6, 2024 almost 8 months later. So on average, to finish this…
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Kubrick Was Wrong About Apes
I think Kubrick’s 2001 would have been more correct if this ape had been smashing another ape skull. Kubrick was a fan of Raymond Dart and Robert Ardrey (author of the African Genesis and The Hunting Hypothesis). These men held that the defining moment of the “transition” from ape to man was our ability to…
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Language Isn’t “Real”
Modern scientists (particularly atheists) will claim that demons, gods, etc. don’t “exist,” meaning they don’t appear on cameras or they’re not traceable through scientific measurement. By this logic, language doesn’t exist either until it is manifested in audio or visual form. This is consistent enough. And yet, the modern scientist has faith in the existence…
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Death from a Distance – Failing to Bridge the Spandrel between Object-Use and Combat
I recently was leaving a comment on a previous post and thought it worth reposting it here. Paul Bingham and Joanne Souza’s Death from a Distance sits on my shelf unread. It’s over 600 pages. The hypothesis is: Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe attempts to explain both human evolution…
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AI Poisoning
Perhaps the reason driverless cars are “uncanny” is because the average person can’t merge with a car. When we drive a car, we are using a tool which has, as a result, our linguistic expression. We can detect hesitation, anger, happiness, etc. while watching how another’s car moves. It allows us to predict flows of…
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The Copernican Oracle
Frans de Waal’s book Mama’s Last Hug (2019) is so far very good. It’s good not because I agree with him, but because he has the balls to take his viewpoint to its logical conclusions. Which is: if humans are just animals as he claims, then to attempt to differentiate ourselves is to engage in…
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Violence + Linguistics = Synthesis II (also A Warning for AI Modelers)
Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” model was combined with Gregor Mendel’s genetics which formed what’s known as Modern Synthesis (I’ll call it Synthesis I). It was relatively easy to happen upon Synthesis I: the science was already mostly there for both Darwin’s and Mendel’s schools. All one had to do was combine the fields and…
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A Simple Flowchart for Human Violence and Language
Object-based combat (OBC) (unique to humans) and the human phenotype both feed into the Merge Field of Combat. The Merge Field of Combat (Merge) is the shared moment of anticipation, which can last indefinitely and remains open before, during, and after combat due to the persistent and wildcard nature of OBC. Here, signals are tried,…
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Does Unoptimized-Merge Prevent Speciation?
I’ve gone on at length about how combat between antagonists sets the Merge field and this is how signals are generated, verified, and rejected, both in animals and humans. A change in the natural weapons of an animal, such as the sudden appearance of a new horn or claw, would create a new animal Merge…