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The Rise and Fall of Procedural Man (and Woman)

Nicholas Carr’s recent book entitled The Glass Cage: Automation and Us contains an interesting sub theme: The current rise of automation may mark the fall of Procedural Man. OK, who’s Procedural Man? Most of us are able to ride a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is a form of learned procedure. Once we have learned a […]

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Homosexuality Sheds Light On Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment (GBAE)

I just read an interesting article that puts forth the following argument: “[T]here’s a continuum between affection and sexuality.” I happen to agree with this argument because I believe that the various behavioral systems—attachment, caregiving(receiving), and sex—interact in a dynamic way forming what I call a Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment or GBAE. I have talked […]

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Bringing Carr’s Glass Cage Back to Bowlbian Attachment Theory

Before I start this blog post, allow me to do some housekeeping. After my last post entitled John Bowlby and the Glass Cage of Automation, a reader asked if I could provide a reference on the rise of posthuman or postbiology thought. On the rise of posthuman thought I would direct the reader to Francis […]

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John Bowlby and the Glass Cage of Automation

I recently finished reading Nicholas Carr’s 2014 book The Glass Cage: Automation and Us. In many ways Glass Cage is a follow up to Carr’s 2010 book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. As you may recall, the FHL Foundation brought Carr in to speak about The Shallows as a part of […]

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FHL Foundation Makes Summer 2014 Grants

The board of the FHL Foundation made the following grants at their July 22, 2014, board meeting: 1) Vero Beach Museum of Art – Lecture Series – $15,000 2) Casa Q – Group Home for LGBT Youth – $10,000 Congratulations to the above grant recipients! With these two grants the FHL Foundation closes its grantmaking […]

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