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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/22/15 8:21 AM, Yoonsuck Choe
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Hi John,
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<br>
Whether you put "respected" or not does not seem to be important
at all, and I don't know why you're making such a big deal out of
it. All these exchanges involving this minor matter seems to be
diluting your more important message. Consider this: I think
Shimon was just joking when he emailed you with his suggestion and
I think you took it too seriously.
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cite="mid:alpine.GSO.2.00.1502220701190.21067@sun.cs.tamu.edu"
type="cite">Yoonsuck
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:choe@tamu.edu">choe@tamu.edu</a>
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Yoonsuck Choe, Ph.D. Dept. of Comp. Sci. &
Engineering
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Professor Texas A&M University
<br>
Director, Brain Networks Laboratory 3112 TAMU
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Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:choe@tamu.edu">choe@tamu.edu</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:choe@cs.tamu.edu">choe@cs.tamu.edu</a> College Station, TX
77843-3112
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WWW: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/choe">http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/choe</a> Phone: +1-979-845-5466
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Lab: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://research.cse.tamu.edu/bnl">http://research.cse.tamu.edu/bnl</a> Fax: +1-979-847-8578
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Seeing the Manifesto that talks also about politics, some people in
this community are "disturbed" as a well known professor put it but
explicitly asked me not to forward his message to the BMI mailing
list. Some people said that we are not experts on politics. I
guess he also meant that I am not a recognized expert on politics.
This is true. <br>
<br>
Was Albert Einstein an expert on politics? Is Noam Chomsky an
expert on politics? <br>
<br>
If people working on how the brain works do not talk about politics,
our politicians would never understand their brains' mistakes. <br>
<br>
For example, if we do not think that Mr. Kim Jong-un is worth
respecting, we would be very reluctant to think that his issue is
also a brain science issue. He has been trying to reform, but
other high-level officials in North Korea are probably resisting.
The top group in North Korea has too much power but with few
people. In such a case, a coop could happen any time, either with
reform or without. If Mr. Kim Jong-un had not purged his uncle Jang
Sung-taek and other high-level officials that his father
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handpicked to groom him, he could have been killed by them when he
wanted to be different from his father. <br>
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A similar situation is happening in China, but fortunately, China
has at least a term limit for the paramount leader Mr. Xi Jinping.
Otherwise, China could have had a moderate scale Cultural Revolution
by now because Xi has to consider how he steps down. Currently, the
anti-graft struggle is like a small scale Cultural Revolution. <a
href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1579591/xi-jinping-wants-be-seen-par-mao-zedong-and-deng-xiaoping">Mr.
Xi wants to be seen as on a par with Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.</a>
Unfortunately, he did not have enough brain knowledge and social
knowledge for his position, although his "do deeds" motive was well
intended. I predict that the power transition from Mr. Xi Jinping
to the next successor would be very violent, much more violent than
the intense power struggles that accompanied with his own power take
over from Hu Jintao. Chinese economy and people life will suffer
backlashes and so will the world economy. <br>
<br>
Let us read the history to understand the limitation of all brains,
although we are not experts in a traditional sense of expert. <br>
<br>
-John<br>
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