“But it is his covey of scientists that inspires Epstein’s true rapture. Epstein spends $20 million a year on them – encouraging them to engage in whatever kind of cutting-edge research might attract their fancy. They are, of course, quite lavish in their praise in return. Gerald Edelman won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1972 and now presides over the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla. “Jeff is extraordinary in his ability to pick up on quantitative relations,” says Edelman. “He came to see us recently. He is concerned with this basic question: Is it true that the brain is not a computer? He is very quick.”

Then there is Stephen Kosslyn, a psychologist at Harvard. Epstein flew up to Kosslyn’s laboratory in Cambridge this year to witness an experiment that Kosslyn was conducting and Epstein was funding. Namely: Is it true that certain Tibetan monks are capable of holding a distinct mental image in their minds for twenty minutes straight? “We disproved the thesis,” says Kosslyn. “Jeff was on his cell phone most of the time – he actually wanted to short the Tibetan market, because he thought the monk was so stupid. He is amazing. Like a honeybee – he talks to all these different people and cross-pollinates. Just two months ago, I was talking to him about a new alternative to evolutionary psychology. He got excited and sent me a check.”

Epstein has a particularly close relationship with Martin Nowak, an Austrian biology and mathematics professor who heads the theoretical-biology program at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Nowak is examining how game theory can be used to answer some of the basic evolutionary questions – e.g., why, in our Darwinian society, does altruistic behavior exist? Epstein talks to Nowak about once a week and flies him around the country to his various homes to deliver impromptu lectures. Over the past three years, he has written $500,000 worth of checks to fund Nowak’s research. This past February, Epstein had Nowak over for dinner at the 71st Street townhouse. It was just the two of them (not including the wait staff), and Nowak, making use of a blackboard in the formal dining room, delivered a two-hour highly mathematical description of how language works.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4300445&forum_id=2#38514158)

Stephen Michael Kosslyn (born 1948) is an American psychologist, neuroscientist, and expert on the science of learning. Kosslyn is President and CEO of Foundry College, an online two-year college designed to help working adults develop skills and knowledge that will not be automated in the foreseeable future. Prior to that, Kosslyn was Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute)[1]. And before that, he was the John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James and Dean of Social Science at Harvard University.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4300445&forum_id=2#38514595)

“Is my brain a computer?”

“Idk we need $20M.”

“NP, u wanna go fuck some teens?”

“Hell yeah nigga.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4300445&forum_id=2#38514173)

like he wanted to download his brain into a teen guy's body to get more teen girls on the island...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4300445&forum_id=2#38514178)

Probably the image he cultivated to help give him easier access to billionaires that he could then entrap and blackmail

And/or he could get insider information from the scientists for his fund

And/or he could learn about secret tech innovations to leak to Israel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4300445&forum_id=2#38514196)

He wrote recently to a scientist friend of his: “The behavior of termites, together with ants and bees, is a precursor to trust because they have an extraordinary ability to form relationships and sophisticated social structures based on mutual altruism even though individually they are fundamentally dumb. Money itself is a derivative of trust. If we can figure out how termites come together, then we may be able to better understand the underlying principles of market behavior – and make big money.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4300445&forum_id=2#38514201)

What is the point of huge stacks of cash if you can't fulfill the the sorts of fantasies that every man has?

I'm surprised that stuff like this doesn't surface more often

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4300445&forum_id=2#38519248)

scholar, pederast, financier, socialite, international spy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4300445&forum_id=2#38514297)