Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way we do business, and it can potentially allow firms to improve their decision making, given that individuals are willing to adopt algorithms in . It was in 1963 [video clip of John F Kennedy, looking presidential, coming up to a podium] that I went to Washington and met President Kennedy at the Boy's Nation programme [video of the young Clinton and the youthful President Kennedy shaking hands]. It is a privilege to work in a field that is still in its infancy and so rapidly changing and expanding – it meant that we were continuously learning about novel approaches and cutting-edge findings throughout the editorial process. This book is a handbook for how to talk about what really matters to you, written in just the way Westen says we should talk to voters—with vivid language, evocative imagery, and a sense of humor. Finally, they were presented with an exculpatory statement that might explain away the apparent contradiction, and asked to reconsider and again rate the extent to which the target's words and deeds were contradictory.

For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate" notions held by most cognitive psychologists, political scientists, and economists—and Democratic campaign strategists.

Teresa Heinz-Kerry [Kerry's wife]: "John is the face of someone who's hopeful [photo of the two, possibly as newlyweds, with Kerry smiling broadly], who's generous of spirit and of heart. From here, Massumi’s main problem is similar to Connolly’s that I mentioned earlier: how to explain how something like (the illusion of) subjectivity arises out of the pre-subjective. And we just need to believe in ourselves again [video of Kerry speaking again, followed by video of profile of Kerry waving in some political event]. The photo of Kerry "serving" conveyed nothing about him, other than perhaps that he needed bifocals.

Politicians need a stronger peer-review system that goes beyond the churlish opprobrium of the campaign trail, and I would love to see a political debate in which the candidates were required to make the opposite case.

Third, we expected to see a brain in conflict—conflict between what a reasonable person could believe and what a partisan would want to believe. Most of the time, emotions provide a reasonable compass for guiding behavior—including voting behavior—although the needle sometimes takes a couple of years to move. Through recourse to Robert Pfaller’s and Slavoj Žižek’s concept of interpassivity, it is first argued that the brain might be the ultimate expression of interpassivity (we outsource our being to our brains). Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones,” Westen said. Think big: Toward a grand neuropolitics—Or, why I am not an immanent naturalist or a vital materialist.

If you're running a campaign, you shouldn't worry about offending the 30 percent of the population whose brains can't process information from your side of the aisle unless their lives depend on it (e. The most moving moments of the ad came as Kerry's fellow soldiers told, with genuine emotion in their voices, how he had saved their lives. I voted in favor of a resolution that would have insisted that economic sanctions be given more time to work. By explaining how voters actually process information, Drew Westen lays bare the connection between politicaltechnique, political conviction, and the Democrats' habit of bungling winnable elections. The role of conscious free will, for Libet, is limited to the act of saying no; it cannot initiate a voluntary act (Libet, 1999).And I remember [living room video of a now-adult Clinton, starry eyed and nostalgic thinking about the encounter with a man who was obviously his hero] just, uh, thinking what an incredible country this was, that somebody like me, you know, who had no money or anything, would be given the opportunity to meet the President [photo of their hands clasped, slowly and gradually expanding to show the connection between the two men]. And I remember [living-room video of a now adult Clinton, starry eyed and nostalgic thinking about the encounter with a man who was obviously his hero] just, uh, thinking what an incredible country this was, that somebody like me, you know, who had no money or anything, would be given the opportunity to meet the president [photo of their hands clasped, slowly and gradually expanding to show the connection between the two men].