@Mar Herman.
Thanks for your relevant thoughts and quotes (Olaf Sporns, Networks of the
Brain, and the Washington Post paper).
In my book Anoptikon, I rely on the research in neuroscience of Guillaume
Dumas & all (Institut Pasteur, Paris), who study experimentally the
influence of level of
@Max Herman
I do not have in mind any particular reference related the link between
meditation practice and social signal theory. It can be assumed that if
meditation has spread quite widely, it is because it has been selected as
an adapted behaviour capable of providing an evolutionary advantage,
Olivier --
For a model of what our down-side-of-the-Hubbert-curve global situation might
look like, and practices that might well be embraced for this inevitable
de-industrialization process that cannot be stopped by any technological
implementations, only slightly slowed through radical
Thanks César
As you have understood, I am speaking from a perspective borrowed from the
cognitive sciences, particularly the social signal theory. Other aspects
are also developed in my book.
- Executives who fly for a yes or no, do so to send social signals.
- People locked in their homes and
Interesting approach Olivier!
It's clear that Greta has sparked something, as latest posts in this
mailing list are about her :)
Last week, I was thinking the same topics you discuss in the conclusions:
"To face all the challenges, environmental and others, we must invent new
ways of doing a
Besides the apparent unity of the climate processions, Greta Thunberg is a
matter of very violent disputes in all sectors of society. One may wonder
whether this general discord does not promise a global social warming that
could be more dangerous than the climate’s one. I am looking here for a
