In yesterday’s episode of The Show with Ze Frank, Ze talks about fear and emotion and the “reptilian part of your brain“:
It’s left over from a time when things were a little more straightforward.
Bigger than me? Check. Fangs? Check. Run like hell.
While a bit more straightforward perhaps than manipulation via mediated communication, I still think [...]
I’ve been reading The Media Equation, by Stanford’s Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves. A quick read and yet I’ve been struck by how quickly I changed my mind about its main thesis.
The basic premise is that people treat computers like people – since we have old brains and in the past, everything that seemed [...]
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