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Globalists

by Quinn Slobodian  · 16 Mar 2018  · 451pp  · 142,662 words

processes of constitutionalization modeled on the multitiered structure of the European Community. If Hayek “frequently uses machines to illustrate his theory of mind,” as one scholar observes, Geneva School neoliberals used Hayek’s theory of mind to illustrate world economic order.233 Hayek’s inability or unwillingness to engage with mathematics and statistics kept him off

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

by Paul Kingsnorth  · 23 Sep 2025  · 388pp  · 110,920 words

media feed, can develop nuance and power autonomously, teaching themselves and others, and they can do so at exponential rates. Meanwhile, they are rapidly developing ‘theory of mind’—the process through which a human can assume another human to be conscious, and a key indicator of consciousness itself. In 2018, these things had

no theory of mind at all. By November 2022, ChatGPT had the theory of mind of a nine-year-old child. By the next spring, Sydney had enough of it to try to persuade a reporter

to leave his wife. Furthermore, the acceleration of the capacity of AI is both exponential and mysterious. The fact that they had developed theory of mind at all, for example, was only discovered by their developers by accident. Chatbots trained to communicate in English have started speaking Persian, having quietly taught

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The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last

by Jimmy Wales  · 28 Oct 2025  · 216pp  · 60,419 words

it. Every time we think about what others are thinking about, we reveal it again. “We wouldn’t have evolved the capacity for language or theory of mind if we were always off by ourselves with no one to talk to or interact with.”[4] I also spoke about the subject of human

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

by Paul Collier  · 4 Dec 2018  · 310pp  · 85,995 words

rational self-interest. But we predict the actions of the butcher and the baker by putting ourselves in their shoes; it is known as the ‘theory of mind’. Smith recognized that seeing a person from the inside not only enables us to understand them, but induces us to care about them and assess

confident that we can predict how they will behave. We have more confidence in our predictions if we can safely use the techniques of a ‘theory of mind’: I predict your behaviour by imagining how I would behave in your circumstances. But using this technique is only reliable to the extent that I

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The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski  · 5 Mar 2019  · 202pp  · 62,901 words

different sorts of problems, and the resources needed to solve them. In the same way that neuroscientists have in recent decades stolen debates over the theory of mind away from philosophers, complexity theorists and computer scientists are stealing this debate away from economists and political scientists. However, the discussion still largely remains hidden

Intense Worlds

by Maia Szalavitz  · 11 Dec 2013  · 27pp  · 7,627 words

unknown. The most prominent theory suggests that autism results from problems with the brain’s social regions, which results in a deficit of empathy. This “theory of mind” concept was developed by Uta Frith, Alan Leslie, and Simon Baron-Cohen in the 1980s. They found that autistic children are late to develop the

. But while the Sally-Anne experiment shows that autistic people have difficulty knowing that other people have different perspectives—what researchers call cognitive empathy or “theory of mind”—it doesn’t show that they don’t care when someone is hurt or feeling pain, whether emotional or physical. In terms of caring—technically

we looked at the autism field we couldn’t believe it,” Markram says. “Everybody was looking at it as if they have no empathy, no theory of mind. And actually Kai, as awkward as he was, saw through you. He had a much deeper understanding of what really was your intention.” And he

details. Mottron’s support is unsurprising, of course, because the intense world dovetails with his own findings. But even one of the creators of the “theory of mind” concept finds much of it plausible. Simon Baron-Cohen, who directs the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, told me, “I am open to the

idea that the social deficits in autism—like problems with the cognitive aspects of empathy, which is also known as ‘theory of mind’—may be upstream from a more basic sensory abnormality.” In other words, the Markrams’ physiological model could be the cause, and the social deficits he

Psychopathy: An Introduction to Biological Findings and Their Implications

by Andrea L. Glenn and Adrian Raine  · 7 Mar 2014

, Baird, and End 2004, Kiehl et al. Emotion regulation Frontopolar cortex Findings 2001, Müller et al. 2003, Schneider et al. 2000, Viet et al. 2002) Theory of mind (affective component) Increased gray matter concentrations in youth (De Brito et al. 2009) Shifting behavior when rewards change Increased activity during reversal learning (Finger et

Brasileira De Psiquiatria 31 (3):214–18. Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., R. Tomer, B. D. Berger, D. Goldsher, and J. Aharon-Peretz. 2005. “Impaired ‘affective theory of mind’ is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage.” Cognitive Behavioral Neurology 18 (1):55–67. Shea, A., C. Walsh, H. MacMillan, and M. Steiner. 2005. “Child

Monotropism: A Unified Theory of Autism

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it’s all too easy to stretch them beyond their domain of applicability, and it can cause real problems, like assuming autistic adults have no theory of mind. Maybe it’s my autistic perfectionism, but I don’t like theories to leave too many loose ends. Monotropism provides a far more comprehensive explanation

the field, points out that ‘often in psychology a new theory is built on top of an empirical finding — this is what happened certainly with Theory of Mind which was rooted in a 1985 experimental study by Simon Baron-Cohen, Alan Leslie and Uta Frith. For non-autistic psychologists, there is no lived

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

by Yascha Mounk  · 19 Apr 2022  · 442pp  · 112,155 words

University Press, 1993), 531. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT prove the benefits of literature: David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano, “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind,” Science 342, no. 6156 (October 2013): 377–80, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/377.abstract?sid=f192d0cc-1443-4bf1-a043-61410da39519. GO TO

Protocol: how control exists after decentralization

by Alexander R. Galloway  · 1 Apr 2004  · 287pp  · 86,919 words

fundamentally different than the hard, rigid world of computer code. Yet this book has very little to say about questions epistemological. Protocol is not a theory of mind. Nor, following Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter in their forward to the fascinating collection Incorporations, is protocol a theory of the body. For, as they

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian  · 1 Nov 2012

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier  · 28 May 2018  · 151pp  · 39,757 words

Beyond Weird

by Philip Ball  · 22 Mar 2018  · 277pp  · 87,082 words

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

by Nicholas A. Christakis  · 26 Mar 2019

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by Terrence J. Sejnowski  · 27 Sep 2018

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by Andrew W. Lo  · 3 Apr 2017  · 733pp  · 179,391 words

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by Paul Scharre  · 23 Apr 2018  · 590pp  · 152,595 words

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by Robert F. Barsky  · 2 Feb 1997

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by Simon McCarthy-Jones  · 12 Apr 2021

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by Jesse Norman  · 30 Jun 2018

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

by Fred Turner  · 31 Aug 2006  · 339pp  · 57,031 words

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by Meredith Broussard  · 19 Apr 2018  · 245pp  · 83,272 words

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber and David Wengrow  · 18 Oct 2021

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by Adrienne Mayor  · 27 Nov 2018

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by Robin Dunbar and Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar  · 2 Nov 2010  · 255pp  · 79,514 words

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by George Gilder  · 16 Jul 2018  · 332pp  · 93,672 words

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by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman  · 2 Sep 2008  · 358pp  · 95,115 words

The Road to Conscious Machines

by Michael Wooldridge  · 2 Nov 2018  · 346pp  · 97,890 words

The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth

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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do

by Erik J. Larson  · 5 Apr 2021

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

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Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life

by Colin Ellard  · 14 May 2015  · 313pp  · 92,053 words

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 2002  · 901pp  · 234,905 words

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg  · 20 Jun 2016  · 709pp  · 191,147 words

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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The Chomsky Reader

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by Philip Mirowski  · 24 Jun 2013  · 662pp  · 180,546 words

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 2014  · 477pp  · 106,069 words

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

by Daniel C. Dennett  · 7 Feb 2017  · 573pp  · 157,767 words

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

by Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault  · 1 Jan 1974

On Nature and Language

by Noam Chomsky  · 16 Apr 2007

Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms: Proceedings of the Agi Workshop 2006

by Ben Goertzel and Pei Wang  · 1 Jan 2007  · 303pp  · 67,891 words

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by Steve Stewart-Williams  · 12 Sep 2018  · 1,132pp  · 156,379 words

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by Joseph Henrich  · 27 Oct 2015  · 631pp  · 177,227 words

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by Cecilia Heyes  · 15 Apr 2018

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by Alan Grafen; Mark Ridley  · 1 Jan 2006  · 286pp  · 90,530 words

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by Dean Burnett  · 10 Jan 2023  · 536pp  · 126,051 words

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence

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by Will Storr  · 3 Apr 2019  · 234pp  · 68,798 words

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by Robert J. Shiller  · 14 Oct 2019  · 611pp  · 130,419 words

The Cultural Logic of Computation

by David Golumbia  · 31 Mar 2009  · 268pp  · 109,447 words

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by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

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by Matt Ridley  · 14 Aug 1993  · 474pp  · 136,787 words

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by Ray Kurzweil  · 25 Jun 2024

The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It

by Matthew Williams  · 23 Mar 2021  · 592pp  · 125,186 words

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist  · 8 Oct 2012

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by John Brockman  · 18 Jan 2011  · 379pp  · 109,612 words

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by Steven Johnson  · 329pp  · 88,954 words

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by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller and Stanley B Resor Professor Of Economics Robert J Shiller  · 21 Sep 2015  · 274pp  · 93,758 words

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by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Jan 1968

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by Noam Chomsky  · 4 Dec 2003

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by Stross, Charles  · 22 Jan 2005  · 489pp  · 148,885 words

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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports From My Life With Autism

by Temple Grandin  · 10 Jan 2006  · 291pp  · 92,406 words

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by Daniel J. Levitin  · 18 Aug 2014  · 685pp  · 203,949 words

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by Richard Dawkins  · 12 Sep 2006  · 478pp  · 142,608 words

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by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 1997  · 913pp  · 265,787 words

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by Richard Yonck  · 7 Mar 2017  · 360pp  · 100,991 words

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The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

by Simon Baron-Cohen  · 14 Aug 2020

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by David Halpern  · 26 Aug 2015  · 387pp  · 120,155 words

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by Matthew B. Crawford  · 29 Mar 2015  · 351pp  · 100,791 words

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by James Suzman  · 2 Sep 2020  · 909pp  · 130,170 words

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

by Joseph Henrich  · 7 Sep 2020  · 796pp  · 223,275 words

The Age of AI: And Our Human Future

by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher  · 2 Nov 2021  · 194pp  · 57,434 words

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

by Anil Seth  · 29 Aug 2021  · 418pp  · 102,597 words

SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully

by Jane McGonigal  · 14 Sep 2015  · 525pp  · 147,008 words

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by Gardner Dozois  · 23 Jun 2009  · 1,263pp  · 371,402 words

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by Andrew Simms  · 314pp  · 81,529 words

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by Christopher Summerfield  · 11 Mar 2025  · 412pp  · 122,298 words

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by Sarah Hendrickx and Keith Newton  · 14 Jun 2007

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