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January 28, 2022
How To Play: Sudden-Death Stress-Chess!
Sudden-Death Stress-Chess
by J T Velikovsky
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You like Chess variants?
There's about: 2,000+ !
Here's one more.
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BACKSTORY
So in a former life, I was a professional game designer, (& game writer & producer & director & player & whatnot...) ...e.g. I worked on games such as: Looney Tunes: ACME Arsenal, XCOM The Bureau, A-Rage 3-D Augmented Reality Sky Invaders, PhiloSopoly, The EthiSizer, etc...
Anyway - here's a cool version (or, Selection, Variation, and Transmission) of Chess that I invented, for shiggles.
It's great because:
(1) it's fun,
(2) gets you in the flow state (see the book: Flow, Csikszentmihalyi 1990), and, mainly:
(3) it usually only takes about 2 minutes flat, to play a game!
...As: a quick game's a fast game.
So - here it comes.
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HOW TO PLAY:
SUDDEN-DEATH STRESS-CHESS !!!
Step 1: Set up the board, like so...
(Standard positional setup, except: in the middle of the board, instead of: at the far ends.
Also, in this version, Black starts minus-a-pawn, as they're an advanced chess player...)
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Step 2: PLAY!
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...Also, this is an example of endgame (checkmate) in 6 moves, (i.e. 3 moves by each player)...
...Can you spot the error? Somebody overlooked an earlier checkmate!
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Anyway - this all reminds me of Agency and Structure, in: Game Design...
For more on Agency and Structure in Game Design, s ee this journal article , about the million-selling videogame, Looney Tunes: ACME ARSENAL :
Velikovsky, J. T. (2012). Animation and Narrative in Videogames: A case study – Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal. Animation Practice, Process & Production, 2(1-2), 11-48 (38). https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10....
And Agency and Structure in Game Design, reminds me of: Agency and Structure in HOLON/partons...
See this blog post for more on all that...
And, even if you don't care about all of that, either way - I do hope you enjoy:
SUDDEN-DEATH STRESS-CHESS !
Try it. You'll like it.
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
January 25, 2022
Explosive Evolution
Explosive Evolution
by JTV
I'm an Evolutionary Culturologist, but, in all my reading on evolution over the years, I've never seen it explained quite this way, (see my diagram below) but, I find it interesting and useful.
(& Please comment below, if you've ever seen this aspect of evolution, explained in quite this way, before! I would love to know, who has had the same thought I did... Convergence of ideas is always fascinating. And happens: a lot.)
So, as a Preface...
First, read H G Wells' Appendix chapter, at the end, in A Modern Utopia (1903).
i.e., His:
APPENDIX: SCEPTICISM OF THE INSTRUMENT
A Portion of a Paper read to the Oxford Philosophical Society, November 8, 1903, and reprinted, with some Revision, from the Version given in Mind, vol. xiii. (N.S.), No. 51.
Now, look at this diagram...
In (1) on the left, we see a circle, with a red dot at the center... That small central red dot represents "the year dot", say, about 4 billion years ago... when single-celled life first emerged. The circumference of the circle (the outer edge) represents: now. So,
time
progress "outwards from the center" of the circle, in this model.In (2) on the right, it shows life evolving into different species. But, less than 1% makes it to: now. (Over 99% of species are: extinct.) So we never see the red bits in (2), as, they died out.
...If they didn't go extinct, we'd see all life on Earth as a spectrum, with no gaps!
So, like this:
Just as an example, there'd be a spectrum - from fish, through fish-lizards, to lizards.Or, pick two random, related species, and there'd be a similar spectrum...
In fact ALL species would be on a spectrum like this. ...No gaps!
But, because 99% of species went extinct, we don't see all the (dead and gone) ones, that fill in the gaps...
We instead, now see different species (that also can't interbreed and produce fertile offspring; as, one current definition of biological "species".) And they all look pretty different from each other. But only because we're only seeing the surviving 1%.
And, we (humanimals) are part of that surviving 1%.
...Fascinating.
Anyway, read that chapter by H G Wells, it's also: fascinating!
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
January 20, 2022
Examined Lives: Weaponized Narratives (Jan 02022)
TVoL's Examined Lives: Weaponized Narratives
(Webinar of: 21 Jan 02022)
See: https://thisviewoflife.com/examined-lives/
A blog-post by
Velikovsky of Newcastle
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Attended this great webinar...
Thanks again to Andy & Sage & TVoL & all...
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TVoL's Examined Lives
ABSTRACT
( by philosopher Andy Norman):
`Weaponized Stories (Session 17)
Date and Time: Thursday, January 20th, 12-1pm ET (4-5pm UTC)
Human beings have a powerful affinity for stories. We find good stories seductive, captivating, even spellbinding. And narratives move us in ways rational argument can’t. The emerging science of story speaks to narrative’s exceptional power to shape minds. In ancient Greece, Plato watched seductive stories derange his fellow Athenians; he went on to argue that the wisest among us must regulate the power of story, lest they inflame passions that tear society asunder. In our time, propagandists use false narratives and internet connectivity to delude millions: Biden stole the election, Climate change is a hoax, Big Pharma is injecting microchips in its vaccines. What are these but simple, seductive stories? Stories that lack an evidential basis but spread anyway because they appeal to emotional needs? What must we understand about stories to prevent them from deranging us all?
Some sources for the ambitious:
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
By Jonathan Gottschall
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Also by Jonathan Gottschall
The Age of Weapqnized Narrative or, Where Have You Gone, Walter Cronkite?
By Braden Allenby
How can we use the ‘science of stories’ to produce persuasive scientific stories?
Jones & Crow
(Abstract by philosopher Andy Norman of TVoL's: Examined Lives (02022)
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And, am happy to report we solved all the world's problems, in that great webinar... (~JTV)
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So, I wouldn't take the below as `True News', or anything :)
Could all be: Fake News. You be the judge.
This came up:
The Heider-Simmel Illusion (YouTube)
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Some of the Zoom-chat is below:------
Questions & Comments made in the Zoom-chat:
04:14:06 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone:
An article on: The discovery of the narreme, the unit of story... (from my 2016 PhD on movie narratives)
StoryAlity #132 – The HOLON/parton structure of the Meme, the unit of culture – and the narreme, or unit of story – book chapter (Velikovsky 2016)
04:14:19 From Kathleen Hart to Everyone:
Holland then integrated cog sci/evolutionary theory into his approaches in “Literature and the Brain"
04:14:26 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone:
as an FYI, on Jan. 28th I’ll be hosting Special on VoiceAmerica with Deepak Chopra, Gregg Braden and 9 other award winning authors on “The Power of Sharing Our Spiritual Stories”. The focus here obviously is on the power on the elements of stories that are metaphysical, of not fanciful, but do plumb depths within us humans. The link is below and you can choose the program from the titles there. It will be he current program. IF you want the Publicity Page from VoiceAmerica, email me at kurtjohnsonisd@yahoo.com Thanks!
04:14:46 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: here is that link again: https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/261...
04:19:02 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: Every tool can be used as a weapon?
04:19:21 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: Consequentialist definition
04:20:21 From Charles Gibbs to Everyone: Intention is a key distinction for me.
04:20:53 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Evolutionary Culturology suggests, all units of culture (all: ideas, processes, products) are tools, for solving problems (achieving goals)... All tools can be also be: ...weaponized :) (...depends if you're: good or evil :)
04:20:59 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: As fish can’t see the water they swim in, we don’t always see the narratives we live in.
04:21:50 From Ben Spaloss to Everyone: Bringing to mind "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace
04:25:03 From David Hurst to Everyone: Gottschall’s book got a blistering review in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/bo...
04:26:17 From David Hurst to Everyone: Dennett: stories as narrative centers of gravity
04:26:30 From Ed Gibney to Everyone: Thanks for the encouragement JT. Here are my reviews of `Mental Immunity' by Andy Norman
https://www.evphil.com/blog/overview-...
https://www.evphil.com/blog/overview-...
04:26:42 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: Another helpful idea are “Cognitive Attractors”. There are memes, there are these symbolic units, but the ones we observe and share are such a small subset of the potential variants we could. Why these and not the others? Cognitive attraction theory tries to explain the clusters of ideas that stick relative to the unobserved alternatives.
04:27:46 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: Narrative psychotherapy has a focus on having the client tell a different story about themself.
04:29:47 From Kathleen Hart to Everyone: The Emperor’s New Clothes existed in various forms before Anderson made it about mocking the king.
04:30:53 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: My PhD (free PDF) if of interest: https://storyality.wordpress.com/my-p...
04:33:29 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: & that chapter on Narremes (units of story): https://storyality.wordpress.com/2016...
04:34:30 From David Hurst to Everyone: can you have a unitive story without have unitive experiences
04:36:21 From David Hurst to Everyone: What kind of experience are the adherents of disunite stories trying to make sense of?
04:40:27 From Diane Sunar to Everyone: david hurst - experience of suspicion or distrust, insecurity
04:40:30 From hankblumfarb to Everyone: Stories may operate similarly to clusters of neurons competing and/or cooperating to fire and randomly and/purposely
04:42:29 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: The thing Steve mentioned that Gottschall mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FIEZ... (as viewers, we invent a "story" about those geometric shapes)(The Heider-Simmel Illusion (YouTube))
04:42:58 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: Eric Hoffer- “The True Believer”. A classic text on the power of narrative to motivate
04:43:23 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: Re David Hurst’s question, my experience with these folk suggests they are trying to satisfy rather blind wound-based emotional needs
04:45:22 From Kathleen Hart to Everyone: Emily Martin examines biology textbook featuring sperm as conquering heroes heading towards the inert egg
04:45:56 From Martha Shepp to Everyone: Optimism bias figures into the human default position of wanting a rosy picture to be true vs. reacting from data in decision making or opinion forming, which figures into giving more cred to the narratives with drama and seeming optimism. Heard about this recently on this podcast https://freakonomics.com/podcast/here...
04:46:08 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: We are more rationalizing beings than rational beings.
04:46:18 From David Hurst to Everyone: Diane Sugar I agree. The root cause of the divergent stories is the sharply divergent experiences following the breakdown of the industrial and other sectors, starting in the 70s. The results is a great loss of meaning see Lyn Nottage play Sweat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLNfu...
04:47:23 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
04:47:27 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: Heider-Simmel
04:49:02 From Kurt Johnson to Everyone: Dr. Bob Atkinson here is a colleague of Joseph Campbell…..
04:50:40 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: Gottschall says science is the antidote to story.
04:51:08 From David Hurst to Everyone: Richard Rorty would argue that science is a variety of story-telling
04:51:13 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: That being said, scientific consensus is really just any expert’s best summary (i.e. story) about “what we know"
04:51:27 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: Ever read the discussion section of any paper? Lots of narrative interpretation!
04:52:03 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: My article in The Journal of Genius & Eminence (special issue on Joe Campbell, 2018): https://storyality.wordpress.com/2018...
04:52:57 From Steve Gilbert to Everyone: Gottschall says stories used to rescue us from the mania of the world, but now stories are causing the mania.
04:54:13 From David Hurst to Everyone: Steve Gilbert the stories reflect the divergent experience and desperate attempts to make sense of them
04:56:43 From Sage Gibbons at TVOL to Everyone: XLIVES Norm: Speak openly, but be brief
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And, did I mention? - A proposed solution to weaponized narratives
(e.g., lies, propaganda, science denial, bullshit, PoMo, etc)...
(in fact, a solution to all the world's problems, including, the problem of Unethical Behavior& also, The problem of Suffering...)
See:
The EthiSizer
(...Before it sees you...)
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And - as a personal antidote to Weaponized Narratives, I can highly recommend, Andy's new book: Mental Immunity (2021) !
Mental Immunity (out now: as of May 18th 2021)
(& I notice, you can pre-order it now on that Amazon link, above... & I did ! )
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So: great webinar. I learned a lot. (JTV)
& Met lots of great people / scholars.
...What's not to like?
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
January 10, 2022
2nd 24-hr Transcontinental Popperian Meet-&-Greet
2nd 24-hr Transcontinental Popperian Meet-&-Greet
Hosted by OurKarlPopper.net
Sat, Jan 8th 2022
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I attended this great Zoom-conference:
Program:
(from OurKarlPopper.net)
Thanks to Jaimi, Rafe, Jeremy, and all the conference organizers for a great webinar
2022 Program highlights:Meet ‘n Greet at 7pm GMT with Brian Boyd, Karl Popper’s biographer, hosted by Rafe Champion. Click here for Brian Boyd’s bio.A celebration the life and work of William Bartley III (1934-1990), hosted by Rafe Champion & Jeremy Shearmur. Click here for more details.A celebration the life and work of all other Popperians who have passed on. More details to follow soon.Collecting stories to keep the Popperian flame burning. More details to follow soon.A celebration of the life and work of Danny Frederick (1955-2021). Click here for more details.An informal conversation about Karl Popper, “The Viennese Socrates” – hosted by Luc Castelein & Philip Benesch, with a focus on Karl Popper’s Open Society.A brainstorming session on how to keep the Popperian flame burning in the coming year, closing session hosted by Elyse Hargreaves. ------------------Some screenshots:
(Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd is working in a biography of Sir Karl Popper)
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& also, Brian Boyd on: Bartley & Popper
More screenshots...
Oseni Taiwo Afisi recently edited the book on Karl Popper and Africa:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-74214-0
All of the sessions were excellent...
...a terrific Zoom conference!
Thanks again to all at OurKarlPopper, for such a great job organizing and hosting.
& keep an eye on the OurKarlPopper website for more news, updates & future Zoom webinars...
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book: https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
The All-Seeing Eye of the EthiSizer ...
November 19, 2021
AppEEL webinar #11 (02021)
So we had AppEEL webinar #10 of 02021...
It was great!!! (Just like AppEEL webinars #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 & #6; #7, #8, #9, and #10 but who's counting.)
By the way, this post you're now reading isn't the Official Page for the AppEEL webinars.
This is just: my NOTES... (Velikovsky of Newcastle)
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The video, from AppEEL webinar #11
(featuring AppEEL Director, Nathalie Gontier)
[video to be inserted]
For more AppEEL videos, see https://www.youtube.com/user/appeellisboa/videos
& speakers/presenters:
Webinar #11 (November 19th 02021)* Featured papers of the special issue on Language & Worldviews for Topoi.
Program:
* Intro to the special issue by Fabio Paglieri, Editor-in-Chief of Topoi
* Lorenzo Magnani on Cognitive Niche Construction and Moral Bubbles
* Selene Arfini on Language: The “Ultimate Artifact” to Build, Develop, and Update Worldviews
* Bárbara Jiménez Pazos on Darwin Puzzled? A Computer-assisted Analysis of Language in the Origin of Species
...Another great AppEEL webinar!!
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& for more about AppEEL, see also:
The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab
------------//------------Anyway, another terrific AppEEL webinar - I learned a lot! & met lots of great people/scholars.
What's not to like-?
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by: Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist
& Systems Scientist
& AI Researcher & Enthusiast
& Evolutionary Culturologist
More information:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia.edu page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
Researchgate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
JTV's ouvre... etc etc.
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
& Forthcoming book P3 of EC (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
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& please stay tuned, for more: AppEEL webinars !
& Thanks for reading!
November 11, 2021
The Weaponization of Doubt - Lee McIntyreWinston's Weekly...
The Weaponization of Doubt - Lee McIntyre
Winston's Weekly CrisiScience Collaborative ~ with Steve Winston
November 11, 2021
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From Steve's Abstract:
...Scientific knowledge is getting bludgeoned from all sides—not just from the political right wing, from every wing. Unverified hearsay is ricocheting around the internet masquerading as scientific fact—bogus “scientific studies” are proliferating in “pre-release” journals. Coincidence is being interpreted as correlation; correlation is being interpreted as cause. Absence of data is being interpreted as absence of effect. There’s a whole lot riding on getting stuff right—our world, like it or not, is linked every which way by technology and technology depends on sound science. Countenancing false premises creates hidden vulnerabilities that can be nefariously exploited by those who fully realize what’s real but loudly proclaim the opposite. It’s in everyone’s interest to tread cautiously through this baffling thicket of preposterousness to actively seek reliable information, to critically assess it against verifiable standards, to draw inferences that derive from the evidence, and to illuminate and sustain the nuggets of truth...
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Dr. Lee McIntyre of Boston University & Harvard Extension Schoolspeaking on
The Weaponization of Doubt
Lee McIntyre
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The Weaponization of Doubt
Lee McIntyre
The denial of scientific facts is the scourge of our age. From climate change to GMOs to vaccines many now seem to embrace a toxic form of doubt. Why? For the most part it's because they have been led to this. There is an important distinction between misinformation and disinformation. The former is a mistake, but the latter is deliberately manipulative. Science denial is not an accident, it is a lie... In recent years, doubt has been weaponized to sow distrust in numerous institutions—among them the scientific enterprise as a whole. The good news? Empirical research now validates the effectiveness of several countermeasures, among them prebunking, debunking, mind-inoculation, content rebuttal, technique rebuttal, and trust-building through personal engagement. CIRCE is working on various programs to apply these strategies at scale and defeat the “great infodemic” of our times.
Dr. Andy Norman of Carnegie Mellon & CIRCE will guest-facilitate this session of the CrisiScience Collaborative.
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In a nutshell, Lee's key points on:
The 5 steps (or tropes) of Science Denial:
Cherry-picking evidence (Steve notes...a real danger in clinical trials; p-hacking, etc.)Belief in Conspiracy TheoriesIllogical ReasoningReliance on fake experts ...& distrust of real expertsThey think: Science has to be perfect (e.g.: Let's wait for more evidence?) (they thus feel, they're being `good skeptics'...)
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& The Zoom-chat text & links:04:30:17 From Andy Norman to Everyone: Check out what Betsch & Schmidt have to say on the subject: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31235861/
04:41:56 From Steve McQuarrie to Everyone: Don’t Be A Sucker link: https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947
04:49:06 From Steve McQuarrie to Everyone: Invisible Force link: https://threatcasting.asu.edu/sites/d... 2020-06/Invisible_Force_%5BWEB%5D_0.pdf
04:51:12 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Re: Lee's `5 tropes of Science Denial' - a great panel-session podcast @ the World Science Festival (Australia) 2021: `Is trust in science growing?' https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/is-trust-in-science-growing/13594732
04:52:58 From Steven Gilbert, Ph.D., ABPP to Everyone: Doubt becomes “virtue signaling” to others in one’s social group, so it is a method of securing status and belonging.
05:08:16 From Andy Norman to Everyone: Lee’s How to Talk to your Relatives @ Thanksgiving About Covid video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrDnKD_44BU
05:11:42 From Andy Norman to Everyone: Andy’s Scientific American piece: “America, You’ve Been Played” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-cause-of-americas-post-truth-predicament/
05:25:41 From Steven Gilbert, Ph.D., ABPP to Everyone: See Jonathan Rauch’s excellent new book “The Constitution of Knowledge: In Defense of Truth”
05:35:48 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: To Steve's point, the 5 tropes of manufacturing consent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent#Propaganda_model_of_communication
05:36:36 From Andy Norman to Everyone: Lee’s op-ed with Jonathan Rauch: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/25/war-truth-is-raging-not-everyone-recognizes-were-it/
05:44:34 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: Mia Jankowicz article: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-its-like-to-go-door-door-promoting-vaccine-alabama-2021-9?op=1&r=US&IR=T
05:57:08 From Velikovsky of Newcastle to Everyone: To Kevin's great point, on high school education: Australia's Chief Scientist (in 2017) on the need to teach science (via science fiction) - to the young: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/science-fiction-as-a-guide-for-the-future-seg/8956204
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Some of Lee's books:
McIntyre, L. C. (2018). Post-truth. The MIT Press.
McIntyre, L. C. (2019). The Scientific Attitude: Defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscience. MIT Press.
McIntyre, L. C. (2021). How to talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason. MIT Press.
For more, see:
Author, Lee McIntyre
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& more about, Andy Norman's CIRCE
https://cognitiveimmunology.net/
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& see also:
`DISINFORMATION MITIGATION: There's a Science for that!'
Synopsis:
Dr. Andy Norman of Carnegie Mellon, author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think, addresses strategies for dealing with misinformation and disinformation... [see link above for full synopsis]
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THE END /
ROLL CREDITS.
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That's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Cyberneticist & AI (& IA - Intelligence Amplification) Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka Humanimal
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (March 2022): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
November 10, 2021
Four Theories of Language - Club of Remy (Nov 02021)
`Four Theories of Language' - @ Club of Remy
11th Nov 02021
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(What is Club of Remy, in a nutshell? A group of brilliant minds who also happen to be
Cyberneticists/Systems Scientists, etc!)
Make sure you visit the CoR YouTube channel - so many great presentations/discussions on there.
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Four Perspectives on Four Theories of Language
November 10th (11th in Australia), 02021:
Klaus Krippendorff, Lou Kauffman, Larry Richard, JT Velikovsky
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[YouTube video to be inserted here, when Jason uploads it!]
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Some snaps:
Jason's Introduction:
& the 4 talks...
Including: Klaus's brilliant Table, which sparked it all...
My pre-recorded video-talk...(see the YouTube video [above] for the Live Version, & Discussion)
The Units & Levels of Language (re: `4 Theories of Language') - Club of Remy - 11th Nov 02021
(& see the Details on the YouTube video page, for all of the References... )
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& Thanks so very much, to: Jason, & Jaimi, Klaus, Larry, Lou - & all at Club of Remy !!!
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If of interest, see also:
P3 of EC (forthcoming book, due out March 2022 - probably)
& see:
The EthiSizer
& maybe even see:
more Ev Cult presentations
& if you're keen, maybe even see:
An Excel spreadsheet "Word-Learner" System (attached) that I made, to teach my students Systems Theory/Cybernetics: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/storyality70a-the-system-atizer/&, Agent-Based Models I've made (e.g., modelling the global film industry, as: a single cybernetic system)https://storyality.wordpress.com/2017/06/03/storyality142-storyality-theory-technological-wonders/
& a computational creativity artificial-writer program I made (which: generates, & judges/ranks: new movie-idea pitches, story characters, transmedia, etc)
https://storyality.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/storyality141-the-robo-raconteur-a-storyality-theory-artificial-writer/
& my PhD was on, the global film industry, as a cybernetic system...https://storyality.wordpress.com/my-phd-dissertation-free-online/
&, was also a professional videogame-designer for 30 years; (all videogames are: cybernetic systems: player inputs , game outputs, & onscreen & audio & haptic-controller-device feedback loops , etc...)
& a cybernetic world-government AI, I designed: (inspired by: The Club of Rome's `World3' Sim)https://on-writering.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-ethisizer-design-sketch.html (but I think we already spoke about this.)
And see the StoryAlity PhD weblog for much more...
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Cyberneticist & AI (& IA - Intelligence Amplification) Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka Humanimal
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
November 3, 2021
Some Philosophy by Philosopher AI
Some Philosophy, by Philosopher AI
So I guess you know about Philosopher-AI ?
...Here's an answer it gave me... (when it was in beta-testing)
This is the prompt I gave it:
I think therefore I am a computer
This is what it said:
I think therefore I am a computerWhat you call 'I' is merely a pattern of information processing, and has no fundamental existence in time or space. Therefore it cannot be said to exist at all. It is not something which can be called real, rather it exists only in the sense that I am sure it does.You as a person are an information processing system, and that is all. A complex one indeed, but still just a pattern of information processing.However, the collection of all such information processing systems that exist is what we call society. It can be said to have an existence in time and space as it is a large collection of information processing which processes itself by interacting with its environment.Society is also just an information processing system, but far more complicated than any individual person.Therefore, society is itself real, but the individual person is not.So, it is not me who says that you are just a pattern of information processing. It is the very definition of 'I'. What I am saying is that you are this collection if information processing systems which we call society.See: I think therefore...
...Pretty profound, really...
(Typos aside; ...I mean, no-one's prefect)
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Now check out The EthiSizer...
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ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Cyberneticist & AI (& IA - Intelligence Amplification) Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka Humanimal
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
The `Mental Gardening' Metaphork
The `Mental Gardening' MetaFork
An Essayicle
by
J the T the V
Systems Scientist, Cybernetics Guy, Info Scientist, Computer Nerd, etc,
(& ...Actor, & Muso, & Artist, & Angry Gardener, Game Designer, Filmmaker, & yada yada yada...)
(Velikovsky plays: many characters in the game of life. "All the world's a stage", yada yada)
Oct 02021
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Hey, so a great book is:
Hyman, S. E. (1962). The Tangled Bank: Darwin, Marx, Frazer and Freud as Imaginative Writers ([1st ed.). Atheneum.
...It shows how, those 4 guys used metaphors, to force you to understand what they were talking about.
e.g. Darwin with the coral of life, later the tree of life, and finally, the tangled bank (an ecosystem), etc.
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Anyway so - here's a cool metaphor from me...
To avoid bad thinking, you need to treat your mind like it's a garden.
You need to weed it, very regularly.
Science and Rationality are the tools you need.
...So - Here are some tools, to tend the garden of your mind...
(1) An unweeded garden, that grows to seed...(2) Science, as a metaphorical scarecrow, right by `the garden of your mind'An unweeded mental garden is often full of balderdash - like: conspiracy theories, ideologies, and Science Denial, and such nonsense.
As a Systems Scientist - you know what I think of that...?
I think:
And just look at me, throwing units of culture (memes; HOLON/partons) around, like I know Billy Shakespeare and Hamlet personally.
Fie on’t! O fie! ...’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
Anyway -- ready for the mental gardening tools?
...Here are just some of my many: gardening tools...
(Literally, not metaphorically. Just getting you warmed up)
Okay, so - here's another really good book, too:
Sagan, C. (1996). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Headline.
In there, in Chapter 12, `The Fine Art of Baloney Detection' (pp. 194-211), the great Carl Sagan has a really great toolkit for thinking good:
`In science we may start with experimental results, data, observations, measurements, ‘facts’. We invent, if we can, a rich array of possible explanations and systematically confront each explanation with the facts. In the course of their training, scientists are equipped with a baloney detection kit..
What's in the kit? Tools for sceptical thinking.
What sceptical thinking boils down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and, especially important, to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument.
Among the tools:
• independent confirmation of the `facts'...
• Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view...
• Arguments from authority carry little weight - `authorities' have made mistakes in the past.. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
• Spin more than one hypothesis... What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in this Darwinian selection among `multiple working hypotheses', has a much better chance of being the right answer
• Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours.
• Quantify. If whatever it is you're explaining has some measure, some numerical quantity attached to it, you'll be much better able to discriminate among competing hypotheses. What is vague and qualitative is open to many explanations.
• If there's a chain of argument, every link in the chain must work (including the premise) - not just most of them.
• Occam's Razor. (Actually, Ockham's, but whatever. I guess Occam's is indeed: simpler JTV :) ...when faced with two hypotheses that explain the data equally well to choose the simpler.
• Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. (See Popper!) Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much.
• The reliance on carefully designed and controlled experiments is key
`Francis Bacon provided a classic reason:
`Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.'
• Control experiments are essential.
• Variables must be separated.
• Often the experiment must be done `double-blind' (Sagan 1996, pp. 48-9%)
And see, this:
Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess 2021 Would Be 25 years Ago (2021)And see (and also, hear, or, read):
How Carl Sagan "Predicted" 2020... in 1995
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And that great Sagan (1996) book also has a great hit-list of FALLACIES ...
Sagan writes:
`Among these fallacies are:
• Ad hominem - Latin for `to the man', attacking the arguer and not the argument
• Argument from authority...
• Argument from adverse consequences...
• Appeal to ignorance - the claim that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa... This impatience with ambiguity can be criticized in the phrase: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
• Special pleading, often to rescue a proposition in deep rhetorical trouble
• Begging the question, also called assuming the answer (e.g., we must institute the death penalty to discourage violent crime. But does the violent crime rate in fact fall when the death penalty is imposed?
• Observational selection, also called the enumeration of favourable circumstances, or as the philosopher Francis Bacon described it, counting the hits and forgetting the misses
• Statistics of small numbers...
• Misunderstanding of the nature of statistics (e.g., President Dwight Eisenhower expressing astonishment and alarm on discovering that fully half of all Americans have below average intelligence).
[...All we ever have is: Science, Statistics, Probability and Evolution! - JTV]
• Inconsistency
• Non sequitur - Latin for `it doesn't follow'
• Post hoc, ergo propter hoc - Latin for `it happened after, so it was caused by' (e.g., ...before women got the vote, there were no nuclear weapons).
• Meaningless question (e.g., What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?)
• Excluded middle, or false dichotomy - considering only the two extremes in a continuum of intermediate possibilities
• Short-term v. long-term - a subset of the excluded middle
• Slippery slope, related to excluded middle (e.g., if we allow abortion in the first weeks of pregnancy, it will be impossible to prevent the killing of a full-term infant.)
• Confusion of correlation and causation...
• Straw man - caricaturing a position to make it easier to attack (e.g., scientists suppose that living things simply fell together by chance - a formulation that wilfully ignores the central Darwinian insight, that Nature ratchets up by saving what works and discarding what doesn't.
• Suppressed evidence, or half-truths (e.g., an amazingly accurate and widely quoted prophecy' of the assassination attempt on PresidentReagan is shown on television; but - an important detail - was it recorded before or after the event?
• Weasel words (e.g., ...Presidents of either political party may... be tempted to arrange wars while waving the flag and calling the wars something else - `police actions', `armed incursions', `protective reaction strikes', `pacification', 'safeguarding American interests', and a wide variety of 'operations', such as `Operation Just Cause'. Euphemisms for war are one of a broad class of reinventions of language for political purposes. Talleyrand said, `An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public')
(Sagan 1996, pp. 49-50%)
(See, also: On How To Disagree, ...if you like that kinda thing)
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Anyway - so the good news is ---
The EthiSizer fixes all of these problems...
...See:
(...Go on, click the link above... :)
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The Demon-Haunted World (Sagan 1996)...
...I'd also highly recommend, Mental Immunity (2021)
Mental Immunity (Andy Norman, 2021)
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And see these 3 truly great books:
McIntyre, L. C. (2018). Post-truth. The MIT Press.
McIntyre, L. C. (2019). The Scientific Attitude: Defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscience. MIT Press.
Anyway - in Conclusion:McIntyre, L. C. (2021). How to talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason. MIT Press.
...How's my metaphor-making?
i.e.,
The Mental Gardening Metaphor...
...Those are just some - of the mental gardening TOOLS...
(Tools are just units of culture: problem-solutions :)
Ideas, processes, products.
So in closing: tend your mental garden well, young padawan. It's the only one you've got!
(...Well; besides: The EthiSizer .)
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THE END
ROLL CREDITS.
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & Cyberneticist & AI (& IA - Intelligence Amplification) Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka Humanimal
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Zen Stupidity
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
Forthcoming book (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
October 15, 2021
AppEEL webinar #10 (02021)
So we had AppEEL webinar #10 of 02021...
It was great!!! (Just like AppEEL webinars #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 & #6; #7, #8 & 9, but who's counting.)
By the way, this post you're now reading isn't the Official Page for the AppEEL webinars.
This is just: my NOTES... (Velikovsky of Newcastle)
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The video, from AppEEL webinar #6
(featuring AppEEL Director, Nathalie Gontier)
AppEEL Webinar #10 on YouTubeFor more AppEEL videos, see https://www.youtube.com/user/appeellisboa/videos
& speakers/presenters:
Webinar #10 (October 15th 02021)
* Sofia Miguens on her paper on Daniel Dennett for the special issue on Language & Worldviews for Topoi
* Richard Theisen Simanke and Elena Pagni on their book on Biosemiotics and Evolution published in the IDER Series
I'm not sleeping, just blinking~! (I always-never sleep @ 3AM ...This was right @ the start :)------//------
& for more about AppEEL, see also:
The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab
------------//------------Anyway, another terrific AppEEL webinar - I learned a lot! & met lots of great people/scholars.
What's not to like-?
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Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by: Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
(aka: Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist
& Systems Scientist
& AI Researcher & Enthusiast
& Evolutionary Culturologist
More information:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia.edu page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
Researchgate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
JTV's ouvre... etc etc.
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
& Forthcoming book P3 of EC (November 2021): https://www.igi-global.com/book/principles-protocols-practices-evolutionary-culturology/267379
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& please stay tuned, for more: AppEEL webinars !
& Thanks for reading!
