Human creativity may be the culmination of a long evolutionary trend toward ever more sophisticated brain mechanisms that produce ever less predictable behaviors. These capacities may make psychology maddeningly difficult as a predictive science, but they also make life worth living outside the lab.
- The mating mind
- The mating mind
By viewing human evolution as a romantic comedy, we might understand not only our creative capacities for producing witty novelties, but also our ability to reinvent ourselves with each new sexual relationship. People act differently when they're in love with different people. We tend to match our expressed interests and preferences to those of a desired individual. One develops a crush on a mountain-climber, and suddenly feels drawn to the sublime solitude of the Alps. One dates a jazz musician, and feels prone to sell one's now puerile-seeming heavy metal albums.
- The mating mind
- The mating mind
Mostly, we use our memes to improve our sexual and social status
- The mating mind
- The mating mind
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Mostly, we use our memes to improve our sexual and social status - The mating mind
هو جان يقصد "الميمز" مال ريتشارد دوكنز... بس ستل🌚🍻
If u keep undressing me with ur eyes, I’m gonna catch cold
- Klaus, Umbrella academy
- Klaus, Umbrella academy
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https://youtu.be/z1A1dP0-rxE
"سواءٌ كنتَ مؤمِناً أو غيرَ مؤمِن، الأصلُ فيكَ الخلود بشكلٍ او بآخر، وهو ممكن، بشكل أو بآخر."
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https://youtu.be/z1A1dP0-rxE
"إعشق ولِد وقاتِل وصِح واكتب حتى على الصخرة الأخيرة التي ستُبعَثُ منها في يوم من الأيام"
Forwarded from Shower Thoughts 🚿
The saying “it’s always in the last place you look” is redundant. Of course it is, once you found it you stop looking for it. [link]
Forwarded from Dabi🏴☠️ (MohammmeDali Fouad Baqir)
الحقُّ أنني أكره إيقاعَ المدن؛ حيثُ يُشعرني - باستمرار - أن هناك ما يوشِكُ أن يقع. بينما في الريف، يوحي الإيقاعُ البطيء؛ أن كل شيءٍ على ما يرام. حتى في الجنائز، يسيرون ببطء، تاركين للجنازةِ ما يكفي من الوقت، لأنْ تتراجعَ عن قرارها، وتعودَ إلى الحياة.
علي عكور
علي عكور
Over the long term, our species, like every other, has just two possible evolutionary fates over the long term: extinction, or further splitting apart into a number of daughter species—each of which will either go extinct or split again.
Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become their ancestors
- The mating mind
Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become their ancestors
- The mating mind
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Over the long term, our species, like every other, has just two possible evolutionary fates over the long term: extinction, or further splitting apart into a number of daughter species—each of which will either go extinct or split again. Our responsibility…
خلصت واحد من ألطف الكتب اللي قريتها + أفكاره جانت provocative إلى حد ما وهالشي كلش حبيته بالكتاب
VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYS HE IS A RELIGIOUS MAN, A GREAT supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church. If so, he may well go to bed each night, say his prayers and ask God: ‘Why didn’t you put some mountains in Ukraine?’
If God had built mountains in Ukraine, then the great expanse of flatland that is the North European Plain would not be such encouraging territory from which to attack Russia repeatedly. As it is, Putin has no choice: he must at least attempt to control the flatlands to the west. So it is with all nations, big or small. The landscape imprisons their leaders, giving them fewer choices and less room to manoeuvre than you might think. This was true of the Athenian Empire, the Persians, the Babylonians and before; it was true of every leader seeking high ground from which to protect their tribe.
- Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
If God had built mountains in Ukraine, then the great expanse of flatland that is the North European Plain would not be such encouraging territory from which to attack Russia repeatedly. As it is, Putin has no choice: he must at least attempt to control the flatlands to the west. So it is with all nations, big or small. The landscape imprisons their leaders, giving them fewer choices and less room to manoeuvre than you might think. This was true of the Athenian Empire, the Persians, the Babylonians and before; it was true of every leader seeking high ground from which to protect their tribe.
- Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall