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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/22/15 8:21 AM, Yoonsuck Choe
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Hi John, <br>
<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. <br>
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cite="mid:alpine.GSO.2.00.1502220701190.21067@sun.cs.tamu.edu"
type="cite">Yoonsuck <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:choe@tamu.edu">choe@tamu.edu</a> <br>
<br>
Yoonsuck Choe, Ph.D. Dept. of Comp. Sci. &
Engineering <br>
Professor Texas A&M University <br>
Director, Brain Networks Laboratory 3112 TAMU <br>
Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:choe@tamu.edu">choe@tamu.edu</a>,
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:choe@cs.tamu.edu">choe@cs.tamu.edu</a> College
Station, TX 77843-3112 <br>
WWW: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/choe">http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/choe</a>
Phone: +1-979-845-5466 <br>
Lab: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://research.cse.tamu.edu/bnl">http://research.cse.tamu.edu/bnl</a>
Fax: +1-979-847-8578 <br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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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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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
MSU Cognitive Science Program and MSU Neuroscience Program
428 S Shaw Ln Rm 3115
Michigan State University
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Tel: 517-353-4388
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