Keith Henson

“Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.”

“Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.”

“Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.”

“Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.”

“The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.”

“Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.”

“The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.”

“Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.”

“Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.”