How to pronounce “attractor” in English

will exit this human condition in either one of two ways, downwards or upwards.This picture has two attractor states.So if we exit the human condition in the downwards direction-- there is in population biology the concept of a minimum viable population size.

With too few individuals left, they can't sustain themselves.There's an attractor state down there, which is extinction.Once you're extinct, you tend to stay extinct.

And so I'll start to explain that in a bit.So there's crime attractors.There's also preventers in a location-- lighting, CCTV.

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This piece of information is based on the study of Chaos theory and applying Chaos theory to the interaction of human beings and how emotions impact us.Positive emotional attractors hope, joy, excitement.It could also be that edgy kind of excitement.

take in more information, and come up with better answers.Positive emotional attractors, which let me say this again, doesn't always feel good.Sometimes it's really edgy.

Sometimes it's a little bit urrrr.Negative emotional attractors on the other hand -- hate, fear, anxiety, extreme chronic stress which, oh by the way, a lot of us feel today even though we don't really admit it-- we do. Those on the other hand close us down.

There's greater access to good restaurants and so forth.And this has been the great attractor.Is it going to come?

There is a lot of it there.And that might be another possible attractor state.If one has to view that-- that this stuff that could, in principle, be reached there is very important, if one has some kind of view on ethics,

Because this is inherently unstable.If it's an attractive state-- attractor state, it is a meta- stable attractor state.And every single generation, some of those who got rich by these methods, do their best to try to make it into a pyramid.

I gather what it's about is they sent basically miners to space.There's more like kind of attractors in the space where there's things that we would confidently call asteroids and things we would confidently call comets,

this happened around 3200 BC and by 2200 BC we actually believe that in the Middle East 90% of the world'spopulation lived in cities they were enormous attractors and they had at this point they were leading leaving they hadarrived to a level of complexity where um the mythology was they had to balance two things the monster on the left is

And we had a dinner that night, and the speaker at the dinner was Murray Cantor, who's a very famous mathematician.And he chose himself to do the Lorenz attractor, which is the core competency equations for complexity mathematics.And after he was done, it was Q&A time.

And we're not going to go there at all today.The point is that this was all an attractor state propelled by Darwin and human nature.Once you're allured up there, it is in your own Darwinian self-interest to persuade hundreds and thousands of virile young males to go off and fight and die to protect your seraglio

He's going to go to shopping malls, parking lots, transit stops, where there's a good supply of ever-changing potential victims.And we call these places as having crime attractors, what attracts people to them.One of the funny things about being in a crowd, most of us feel safer when we're with other people.

What we really want to do is to try to feel and then think and then act, which is a skill that you can learn and it's a skill called self-awareness and it's another set of skillscalled self-management. Emotional attractors.Of the many emotions we feel, I put a few of these up here.

Another way that the human condition could end would be that we exit in the upwards direction.And there, too, I think that there is an attractor state.If and when a civilization manages to obtain technological maturity-- meaning, we have developed most of all technologies that

We're descended from the harems of guys like that.Wow. So this is a major, major attractor state.And I defy you to take Dungeons and Dragons dice, go home, roll up random decades across the last 6000 years, and random locations.

that better than anyone else by knowing a topic really well and not acknowledging that if I live in-- I may live in Washington, DC.had a monopoly. I think you used the language there was a monopoly on audience attention and time, which essentially was a great attractor for local advertisers

and because it was solving a problem of more than 50 years old about the behavior of plasma physics.In plasma, there's no friction, and there's no common attractor.