Dr Bloom has an entire course on the yale channel intro to psychology which is beautiful and most informative and mind-axpansive. Descartes Baby is a goooood booook too! Great interview!
Professor ive seen your course on the yale open course website and i have to say that passion you show for your work and for the human mind has inspired me as a 17 year old to go into psychology. I too am very intrigued by the way other people. All my life ever since i was a little kid i always came up with theories as to why this happens or why did that person do that or why is that group like that. Sadly though the little theories i came up with vanished since i never wrote anything down lol
Dear Big Think, I always enjoy your videos and often watch your older videos already released since I have Favorited so many over the years. Please please add closed captions to your older videos! Please
Dr.Bloom- I am big fan of yours (my son is a Yale grad student). I have seen a lot of your lectures and really enjoy them (I am trying to see the Psych reason behind that!). Anyway, I did find one anamoly in your lectures. In this Big Think interview you talk about the art that your son Max drew and called it an airplane. I remember hearing the same anecdote in the CHF lecture but you attributed that to your other son Zackary. Is this just a story to illustrate a concept or is this for real? :)
Could the pervasive belief in an afterlife somehow be tied to the fact that our genes do live on when we pass them on to another generation? When we assume that our beliefs are the byproduct our instincts, and instincts to view life as perpetual could give an evolutionary advantage, could it just be that a belief in an afterlife is just a rationalization of these instincts?
15:55 ... "fart spray?" ... do tell where one can obtain a can of "fart spray?" Never mind... I Googled it. Turns out there are several competing products to choose from (for the fart spray connoisseur). Lol.
Sweden has the highest rape rate in Europe, author Naomi Wolf said on the BBC's Newsnight programme recently.The Swedish police recorded the highest number of offences - about 63 per 100,000 inhabitants - of any force in Europe, in 2010. The second-highest in the world. www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19592372
There is no morality as such outside of religion - good is what God tells us to do. As Kolakowski said - whoever says that God doesn't exist and that's fine lies to himself. (I'm not even sure if he believed in God, but that was his choice).
In this argument it's an atheist's role to explain that and to prove that it actually qualifies as morality. Far be it from me to say that atheists are not good people, of course...
But from a strictly religious point of view - and as far as I can tell - rejection of God and immoral behaviour are separate issues. Atheists can of course behave in a moral way, but we need the idea of God in order to qualify any behaviour as moral or not.
***** It is not so clear to me why we would need the idea of god in order to qualify? When an atheist takes care of elders, of the weak, and so forth; when he/she rejects individualism, and when she observes and overtly criticises immoral behaviour around her, why wouldn't she deserve to be labelled as a moral being?
+Pawel Wysocki You could use Peter Singer's definition of morality as the equal consideration of everyone's interest. A similar point is also made by Kant in the first formulation of the categorical imperative, where he says that the maxims of your actions have to be universalisible.
Faith is an Accident! That makes as much sense as the Assumption THAT COMPLEX INTELLIGENT LIFE IS THE PURE RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT. IF FAITH AND BELIEF IN GOD IS ACCIDENTAL SO IS OUT EXISTENCE. THE LOGICAL CONCLUSION WOULD BE THAT LIFE IS A POINT ACCIDENT THAT MERELY PERPETUATES ITSELF.
Dr Bloom has an entire course on the yale channel intro to psychology which is beautiful and most informative and mind-axpansive. Descartes Baby is a goooood booook too! Great interview!
Children are drawn to imagination not to prepare for the worst case scenario, but to prepare for the real case scenario.
Professor ive seen your course on the yale open course website and i have to say that passion you show for your work and for the human mind has inspired me as a 17 year old to go into psychology. I too am very intrigued by the way other people. All my life ever since i was a little kid i always came up with theories as to why this happens or why did that person do that or why is that group like that. Sadly though the little theories i came up with vanished since i never wrote anything down lol
Dear Big Think,
I always enjoy your videos and often watch your older videos already released since I have Favorited so many over the years. Please please add closed captions to your older videos!
Please
Dr.Bloom- I am big fan of yours (my son is a Yale grad student). I have seen a lot of your lectures and really enjoy them (I am trying to see the Psych reason behind that!). Anyway, I did find one anamoly in your lectures. In this Big Think interview you talk about the art that your son Max drew and called it an airplane. I remember hearing the same anecdote in the CHF lecture but you attributed that to your other son Zackary. Is this just a story to illustrate a concept or is this for real? :)
He is just full of it , that’s whys it’s pushing on one eye to divert in the opposite direction.
Professional proffer of a kind I always love you
Could the pervasive belief in an afterlife somehow be tied to the fact that our genes do live on when we pass them on to another generation? When we assume that our beliefs are the byproduct our instincts, and instincts to view life as perpetual could give an evolutionary advantage, could it just be that a belief in an afterlife is just a rationalization of these instincts?
15:55 ... "fart spray?" ... do tell where one can obtain a can of "fart spray?" Never mind... I Googled it. Turns out there are several competing products to choose from (for the fart spray connoisseur). Lol.
+byedaway1 lol, you should take videos and upload them to youtube ;)
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It reminds me some works on AI (that depends on human memory algorythms) and works on human brain learning during it's life.
Sweden has the highest rape rate in Europe, author Naomi Wolf said on the BBC's Newsnight programme recently.The Swedish police recorded the highest number of offences - about 63 per 100,000 inhabitants - of any force in Europe, in 2010. The second-highest in the world. www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19592372
Look, I love Paul Bloom, but the stuff from 7:24 is just rehashed psychoanalysis, no matter how simplified the language is
focus
Religion: “How can I get money from your pocket in to mine?” Sheep.
Where does one buy fart spray that he discusses around 17 mins?
Joke shops, amazon...it's not difficult to get hold of.
Just squeeze your brain . I’m sure it’s full of it .
@@hemondkhavalier9700 911 I think a guy just experienced a 3rd degree burn.
There is no morality as such outside of religion - good is what God tells us to do. As Kolakowski said - whoever says that God doesn't exist and that's fine lies to himself. (I'm not even sure if he believed in God, but that was his choice).
***** How do you explain atheists of your surrounding also acting morally?
In this argument it's an atheist's role to explain that and to prove that it actually qualifies as morality. Far be it from me to say that atheists are not good people, of course...
But from a strictly religious point of view - and as far as I can tell - rejection of God and immoral behaviour are separate issues. Atheists can of course behave in a moral way, but we need the idea of God in order to qualify any behaviour as moral or not.
***** It is not so clear to me why we would need the idea of god in order to qualify? When an atheist takes care of elders, of the weak, and so forth; when he/she rejects individualism, and when she observes and overtly criticises immoral behaviour around her, why wouldn't she deserve to be labelled as a moral being?
+Pawel Wysocki You could use Peter Singer's definition of morality as the equal consideration of everyone's interest. A similar point is also made by Kant in the first formulation of the categorical imperative, where he says that the maxims of your actions have to be universalisible.
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Faith is an Accident! That makes as much sense as the Assumption THAT COMPLEX INTELLIGENT LIFE IS THE PURE RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT. IF FAITH AND BELIEF IN GOD IS ACCIDENTAL SO IS OUT EXISTENCE. THE LOGICAL CONCLUSION WOULD BE THAT LIFE IS A POINT ACCIDENT THAT MERELY PERPETUATES ITSELF.
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I think this guy needs to leverage ad-hominen attacks against people who are smarter than he is.