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http://www.pulsethebook.com [Pulse] Brooks’ research looks to ethology, the study of how animals interact with their worlds. It sees animal behavior as shaped first by inborn tendencies, and then by what happens when those tendencies meet the influences, obstacles, and rewards of the outside world.

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[Awaretek.com] Python Liberation Front: And this makes sense if we recall that, for the first time, evolution will be advancing using thought and intelligence and *planning*. While we might suppose that humans and indeed all primates and even other animals have been using intelligent thought for evolutionary gain for some time, it is undoubtedly true that we now face the first *planned* evolutionary development.

Imminst.orghttp://www.imminst.org [Imminst.org] ImmInst.org -> Accelerating Progress and the Potential Consequenc: When one says "individuals" in the context of biological evolution, the assumption is of individual creatures, or humans, not individual organs, or even cells, both of which are fairly clearly defined levels of individuation. Already, social coneventions of nationalilty or incorporation are merging humans into living things larger than themselves, upon which selection pressures in the form of economic rather than biological competition can be applied.

Gnxp.comhttp://gnxp.com [Gnxp.com] Untitled Document: A reader pointed me to this article, We are the final frontier,where several intellectuals moot the concpets of impending artificialintelligence, the omnipresence of genetic engineering and the rise ofpost-human collective minds. Since I was about 18 or so I have adheredto the line of thought that our technological civilization is going tohit an "inflection point" in this century.

Sulekha.comhttp://www.sulekha.com [Sulekha.com] Durga Narayanan's Blog - Durga Narayanan web blogs, Durga ...: Clear to himself as his own inborn possession was intelligence of which the highest powers are manifest as reason. There was, however, some other power which made him know things without elaborate questioning and reasoning, a power through which inherent knowledge asserted itself (and which we know as the focal point through which the inner Reality will ultimately express itself) That power was intuition, which is active and vital, it may be observed, even in some children.

Blogcritics.orghttp://blogcritics.org [Blogcritics.org] Blogcritics.org: Bonk me with a female cortex: Men have higher IQs ...: Yet in reality, the problem that many female heterosexual Mensans face is finding a male person who is also heterosexual and as intelligent and/or doesn't mind being with a woman of high intelligence. Gay men are not threatened by highly articulate and opinionated women who are gifted, usually in more than one way.

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