Timothy Leary"s essay entitled "The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot" first appeared in Chaos and Cyber Culture in 1994. Leary defines cyberpunks as "Cyberpunks use all available data-input to think for themselves." He writes about "the cyberperson, cybertech and cyberpolitics." The cyberperson is the one who pilots his/her own life. They continually search for theories, models, paradigms, metaphors, etc. Leary ... self or others. Leary gives a few examples of cyberpunks included on that list are: Christopher Columbus, mark Twain, and Mathias (Rusty) Rust. War Games is an electronic...

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IQ Researchers use IQ similarities to try and estimate ones heritability of IQ. The heritability estimate (a statistical estimate of the degree of inheritance of a given behavior, assessed by the degree of similarity between individuals who vary in their extent of genetic similarity) is found by computing the variation in all the test scores for a given populations and then identifying what portion of the total variance is due to genetic factors or inherited factors. It is found that heredability increases across ones life span. It starts out at about 40% for 4-6 year olds and increases to 80%...

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