Juan Orbea

The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history―the paradox that violence has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.

Is the Human Brain Different from a Computer?

It seems very unintuitive because we're in a very unusual place in the world. It's only over the last couple of hundred years there's such a wild discrepancy between rich countries and poor countries where people in which countries have 100x the income of the poorest people in the world and where we have the technology to be able to change the... See more

6 discussion topics on which David agrees with Taleb:(1) [p. 286] The sterilized randomness of games does not resemble randomness in real life; thinking it does constitutes the Ludic Fallacy (his neologism). This is exactly right, and mathematicians should pay attention. In my own list of 100 instances of chance in the real world, exactly 1 item is... See more

In primitive societies, such crises were resolved by the "scapegoating mechanism," in which the community, en masse, turned on an unpremeditated victim. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order.

Cognitive Science needs an interdisciplinary approach – it needs to derive insights from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, computer science, linguistics, etc.

Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.

The Importance of Having a Body