Public Psychology

ACTA

2012-02-01T01:33:00.001-08:00

I saw how late Romanian government signed ACTA assumed. It is a baseness knowingly made by Romanian officials. I say this because there are numerous claims that that act was signed in unknowingly. So be it? Well if the government spokesman said that there is no problem with ACTA, you do not have to fear than those who do piracy on the net and that, after all, if you're honest you did not mean to be afraid you did it consciously? If you PDL MEPs voted against the resolution condemning all ACTA does not mean that political action is undertaken? This is crazy!
What ACTA? It means you're watching the clock, to get a filtered content, as everything you do on the Internet is recorded and monitored. It's like someone decided to allocate you a cop who always stand behind you. Never mind that you go shopping at farmancie at pub or a business meeting. Cop will stand behind you, of course, for your own good. No matter if you're honest, that you care for your privacy. Cop will ensure that you are over there somewhere behind you.
Undoubtedly, we are becoming closer to a perfect Orwellian society. Madness of desperate companies to protect their products met the megalomania of the shadows of the system to set up a monitoring scheme absolutely crazy. We are clearly victims of our folly, and people continue to stay indifferent. Why? Because, probably, no one is aware of what follows.
ACTA move dangerously close monitoring of sources: from the supplier. This provides a highly effective surveillance system that will take advantage of distributed network and, given the requirements imposed on providers, an exceptional reaction speed. And, to better understand what it is, I'll submits a plausible scenario as possible: you wake up you're accused of piracy, the investigators did not find anything in your computer, but are charged as figures in base data provider. It is possible that the download has been made by a trojan that you installed on your computer and that you did not know, and encrypted file have been transmitted to the recipient without any real commitment on your part. You are guilty because no one will make your stay a security audit of the system or to analyze exotic programs.

G-spot after 60 years DON’T EXIST

2012-01-20T08:12:00.001-08:00

Researchers, led by Dr Amichai Kilchevsky, from the Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, studied nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles published on the subject published during the past six decades. These included clinical trials, case reports and reviews.

They found that none could conclusively prove that the mythic G-spot zone exists and that the strongest evidence remains anecdotal.

One 2008 study, which used ultrasound imaging to survey the vaginal wall said women who reported having orgasms had thicker tissue in the G-spot area than women who didn't. However, Dr Kilchevsky's team found other imaging studies couldn't confirm this finding.

They also reported inconclusive results from tissue biopsies, with some studies reporting more nerve endings in the 'G-spot area' while others found fewer.

Meanwhile a 2010 study, found the clitoris - a known erogenous zone - dropped during sex so that it was closer to the vaginal wall.

A team lead by Dr Odile Bouisson suggested pressure on the wall could actually be indirectly stimulating the clitoris, thereby enhancing the sensation of pleasure.

The authors concluded: 'Objective investigative measures have failed to provide strong and consistent evidence for the existence of an anatomical site that could be related to the famed G-spot.'

The surveys revealed that while a majority of women believe the G-spot exists, there were many who had been unable to locate it.

They postulated that the myth of this other arousal zone may enjoy wide credence today because the G-spot term was coined in the 1980s at a time of sexual liberation in western society.

Dr Kilchevsky said he hoped their findings would take the pressure off women who find it difficult to orgasm.

His team added that couples shouldn't give up all hope.

'Reliable reports and anecdotal testimonials of the existence of a highly sensitive area... demand further consideration,' they said.

Hundredth monkey phenomenon

2012-01-20T05:35:00.000-08:00

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way. --Lyall Watson*

The hundredth monkey phenomenon refers to a sudden spontaneous and mysterious leap of consciousness achieved when an allegedly "critical mass" point is reached. The idea of the hundredth monkey phenomenon comes from Dr. Lyall Watson (1938-2008) in his book Lifetide (1979). Watson, who had a Ph.D. in ethology for work done at the London Zoo with Desmond ("The Naked Ape") Morris, was writing about several studies done in the 1960's by several Japanese primatologists of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Watson alleged that the scientists were "reluctant to publish [the whole story] for fear of ridicule." He wrote that he had "to gather the rest of the story from personal anecdotes and bits of folklore among primate researchers, because most of them are still not quite sure what happened." So, wrote Watson:

I am forced to improvise the details, but as near as I can tell, this is what seems to have happened. In the autumn of that year an unspecified number of monkeys on Koshima were washing sweet potatoes in the sea. . . . Let us say, for argument's sake, that the number was ninety-nine and that at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday morning, one further convert was added to the fold in the usual way. But the addition of the hundredth monkey apparently carried the number across some sort of threshold, pushing it through a kind of critical mass, because by that evening almost everyone was doing it. Not only that, but the habit seems to have jumped natural barriers and to have appeared spontaneously, like glycerine crystals in sealed laboratory jars, in colonies on other islands and on the mainland in a troop at Takasakiyama.

Yes, according to Watson, one monkey taught another to wash sweet potatoes who taught another who taught another and soon all the monkeys on the island were washing potatoes where no monkey had ever washed potatoes before. When the "hundredth" monkey learned to wash potatoes, suddenly and spontaneously and mysteriously monkeys on other islands, with no physical contact with the potato-washing cult, started washing potatoes! Was this monkey telepathy at work or just monkey business on Watson's part?

It makes for a cute story, but it isn't true. At least, the part about spontaneous transmission of a cultural trait across space without contact is not true. There really were some macaque monkeys who washed their sweet potatoes. One monkey started it and soon others joined in. But even after six years not all the monkeys saw the benefit of washing the grit off of their potatoes by dipping them into the sea. Watson made up the part about the mysterious transmission. The claim that monkeys on other islands had their consciousness raised to the high level of the potato-washing cult is a myth (Amundson 1985, 1987; Pössel and Amundson, 1996).

Ron Amundson wrote a very critical article of Watson's claim in 1985. In 1986, in a response to Amundson's critique of the hundredth monkey claim, Watson said his data came from "off-the-record conversations with those familiar with the potato-washing work." Markus Pössel contacted Masao Kawai, one of the senior researchers working on the original macaque project, and asked him about Watson's claims. Kawai said he was not "aware of any sweet potato washing or other skills that propagated more rapidly than would be expected by normal, individual, 'pre-cultural' propagation." When asked about "spontaneous and rapid spread of sweet potato washing from Koshima to groups of macaques on other islands and on the mainland," Kawai responded: "Individual monkeys in other groups or in zoos may have accidentally learned washing behavior, but it hasn't been observed anywhere on Koshima that washing behavior has spread to other group members" (Pössel and Amundson 1996).

When asked if there were "anecdotes or bits of folklore" among his primatologist colleagues regarding rapid behavior propagation, Kawai said "No." And when asked were there any contacts between Lyall Watson and his (Kawai's) colleagues, Kawai said "No." Thus, I repeat: Watson created the hundredth monkey phenomenon. Amundson refers to Watson's "myth-making" rather than his confabulation. Watson's response to Amundson's critique was published in the Fall 1986 issue of Whole Earth Review. Watson wrote: "I accept Amundson's analysis of the origin and evolution of the Hundredth Monkey without reservation. It is a metaphor of my own making, based—as he rightly suggests—on very slim evidence and a great deal of hearsay. I have never pretended otherwise. . . ." Watson apparently made no effort to contact the researchers to inquire about the hearsay he claims he heard. In any case, Watson did not put forth the idea as a metaphor; he put it forth as a fact for which there was some unspecified hearsay evidence.

It should be noted that Watson was the author of some 25 books, and the hundredth monkey nonsense involves only a few paragraphs of his total output. Watson was unrepentant about it, however, and wrote on his website: "I still think it's a good idea!" As a metaphor? Or as a fact? I wonder.

The notion of raising consciousness through reaching critical mass is being promoted by a number of New Age spiritualists. Ken Keyes, Jr. has published a book on the Internet that calls for an end to the nuclear menace and the mass destruction which surely awaits us all if we do not make a global breakthrough soon. The title of his treatise is The Hundredth Monkey. In his book he writes such things as "there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!"

It seems to be working for spreading the word about the hundredth monkey phenomenon.

Even though there is no evidence for the hundredth monkey phenomenon, Rupert Sheldrake has claimed that his theory of morphic resonance explains "the increasing ease with which new skills are learned as greater quantities of a population acquire them."*

Watson died in June 2008, but his legacy lives on in the hundredth monkey myth.

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2012-01-20T04:59:00.000-08:00

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