One of the central claims of Norenzayan et al.'s article is that supernatural monitoring and intergroup competition have facilitated the rise of large-scale prosocial religions. Although the authors outline in detail how social instincts that govern supernatural monitoring are honed by cultural evolution and have given rise to Big Gods, they do not provide a clear explanation for the success of...

Myths about suicide abound in the therapeutic setting. They often inhibit the ability of clinicians (and families) to assess the severity and magnitude of a patient’s suicide risk. This special report discusses some of those myths. In Why I argued that a kind of fearlessness is required to face People Die by Suicide,1 voluntarily the daunting prospect of one’s death, and that doing so necessari...

Protein function is structurally determined, but analyzing the structure of a protein is both difficult and time-consuming. The authors look at the natural instincts of protein secondary structures, which used to be analyzed in terms of their statistical relationship with a single amino acid. Several schemas are offered for identifying regular patterns among various types of secondary protein s...

Instead of putting too much focus on current approaches to protein secondary structure prediction, the authors will look at the natural instincts of protein secondary structures, and propose a schema representation which are offered for identifying regular patterns among various types of secondary protein structures. The schemas employ genetic algorithms base on a steady-state strategy and two ...

Prosocial behavior is a central feature of human life and a major focus of research across the natural and social sciences. Most theoretical models of prosociality share a common assumption: Humans are instinctively selfish, and prosocial behavior requires exerting reflective control over these basic instincts. However, findings from several scientific disciplines have recently contradicted thi...

Thank you so much and good morning. It is a great pleasure to be here. As Paul Ohm said, my interest in the fascinating subject of how to reconcile free speech and privacy, in an age when the Web never forgets, began with a conversation that we had about a year ago. Paul’s work— and the center he’s established here—have been invaluable in exploring the tensions between free speech and privacy o...

The theme of separating the soul from the body created many concerns once it had been announced by René Descartes in his Metaphysical Meditations and Passions of the soul. We believe that Freud was able to bring something new in the philosophical thinking, overcoming the dualism between body and soul. Freud didn’t look after a solution that would start from metaphysical principles, as Spinoza o...