He doesn't believe in "soul"? He has never witnessed a newborn baby, who seems to possess a complete personality and the 20 years later be able to say, "This is the person that I saw at the beginning". Or to hear of the collapse wave of light to a particle when only measured by a person. He is a contradiction of "scientific" evidence.
i ve been listening to him on yt since i was studying psychology. 6 years gone by and now im in the field of neuroscience finally being able to fully appreciate what he is saying. He organizes a bunch of research and connects it so well in his speech while still seeming a little chaotic, just enough to keep us engaged
That’s awesome! I’m pursuing degrees in psychology and neuroscience too! I already was an RN for over a decade and have a bit of introduction to neurology etc, through having had various neuro patients, although the majority of my patients were cardiac. Now, my passions are definitely neuroscience and psychology oriented. Love the newer awareness of connections between the gut microbiome to neurotransmitters (gut brain axis) and epigenetics. I’m also very passionate about attachment theory, consciousness, healing, neuroplasticity. For the neuroscience curriculum I want to take almost every class, even though you have to choose out of various classes! What are you hoping to do with your degree? There are so, so many possibilities!
Robert Sapolsky can talk about the most distressing subject matter and still manage to chill me out. There's something about how he talks that is very calming.
@@tartanhandbag Well, not sure if Mike Posner and Jaak Panksepp could be called Neuro-Biologists, Joe LeDoux probably. "Next" are Ruth Feldmann and Steve Porges. Many more names could be put on this list, but I don't want to bug you with all the names ...
I saw a same video where he said the same introduction, it's still amazing nonetheless. I binge watch this guy's lectures on standford's youtube channel. Good lord.
Until I listened to this, I had no idea how much there is to know, and that one person could know it. Not sure why, but this guy makes me feel hopeful. Smart guys like him usually don't do that to me.
I've just read his books and I can recognize his enormous knowledge of his field.. He is a extraordinary and phenominal educater, neurobiologist and psychiatrist. His lecture always a worth while to learn and very helpful to understand. Thanks to yourube, I can have a benefit to watch his lecture even though I don't have any other route to attend his lecture far from a distance with my residence.
Before studying any other science, the understanding of what human knowledge is built up from, is an essential part of learning to learn, inherent limitations and predispositions.
SIR you are absolutely INCREDIBLE. There is literally nothing available in my already limited vocabulary to articulate what I wish I could. Ty on every heartfelt level x
The frontal cortex is indeed interesting. It isn’t the only aspect that influences why we do what we do however! That, as he said is very complex and influenced by everything from the amygdala to the hippocampus, to epigenetic changes and more. The frontal cortex is the rational center, unfortunately the limbic system more often than not runs the show. Conscious mind (prefrontal cortex) is only responsible for about 5% of people’s behavior, while the subconscious mind (limbic system etc) is responsible for 95% of behavior! That’s why getting having awareness, introspection and metacognition, can help one be more attune to the subconscious programming that often runs the show. It’s why mindfulness (and it’s positive neuroplasticity effects) is so powerful…it’s the harness, the pause, to the subconscious autopilot behaviors that are responsible for many self sabotaging things people do.
I don’t know that it clears up many misconceptions…but it does touch on some of the reasons there are misconceptions. Misconceptions, and the clearing up of, would take much time, reprogramming of the subconscious, deep introspection and metacognition, separating out many of the conditioned beliefs… it’s a multifaceted, multi nuanced, multidimensional process to ACTUALLY clear up the misunderstandings. Many misunderstandings are built on millennia of ignorance and arrogance…and that takes a lot of work to tease and iron out.
The Amygdala is the organ of violence and is located inside the Limbic System... Fear is stored in this organ. And it is where you're anger is stored. Where PTSD is stored. But the "Insular cortex" is you're moral code, where you know how to do right from wrong.... Found on the frontal (inner portion) of the cerebral cortex area..... "This frontal cortex organ makes you do the harder things when its the right thing to do"..."its you're impulse control, you're gratification postponement, and long term planning, you're emotional regulation" "What does the frontal cortex spend a lot of time doing? Its spends most of its time sending inhibitory projections down to the amygdala hoping to race down their in time before you act on you're impulses" so these projections going down to the amygdala helps you think before you act.
Anger and ptsd are not "stored". They are experiences that become activated within various neural networks when a person experiences which are significant to/for them. PTSD is a multidimentional/complex experience. Anger often does not involve as many neural networks as PTSD does.
Lets see, the insula is not really in the frontal cortex. It is a (small) cortex all it's own, and it kind of lies between the temporal and the frontal cortex. Also I would argue that the fear system within the brain is a complex multilayered system that includes the amygdala but is not limited to it. The insula has a number of functions it contributes to and it also helps process emotion as it is experienced bodily.
COMMENT: Wow! No comment; due to too much to think and rethink about. This no comment is intended as a complement. Thanking Prof. Robert Sapolsky for all his long hours of study and thought...
This man is a treasure. I keep wishing and hoping that he would sit down with Andrew Yang - the only presidential candidate who cares about and understands the impact of stress on our lives individually and societally. I wonder if anyone knows how to contact him?
Awesome Paradox when Professor Spalosky says in his book Behave page 4. " When you explain a behaviour with one of these disciplines you are implicitly envoking all of the disciplines".
Such a great speaker, slipped a "turd" and elegantly hops to "herd" without the slightest trip... I woulda gone to utter shit and have been in and out of hysterics for the following hour or so.
It's nature and nurture. So many want to boil complex issues Down to one thing. Not Robert he understands nuance and complexity. I agree with Robert's views on many subjects. He is very intelligent, insightful and entertaining:)
So, violence in media can increase violence in people who are already violent. So how can Professor say that violence in media is not significant to the overall violence. In other words, does Professor claim that adding gasoline to an already existing fire does not make the fire worse?
I absolutely agree that violence in media can increase and “normalize” violence. Anything we are exposed to repeatedly, has a desensitization effect. I guess I missed where he stated that…but you have a very good point, which I absolutely agree with. Neuroplasticity is essentially firing and wiring, over and over. It can be used for positive things, learning better communication, a sport, a language, etc…but it can also be detrimental, like when exposed to violence, harmful ideologies, and such.
Professor Sapolsky is one of the two most influential intellectuals of our time I enjoy listening to; the other is Terence McKenna. I would have loved to have the two debate -- too bad Terence died so early in life! Need to research if any law journal articles have been published inquiring his physical explanation of the human biology. He could have a huge impact on our criminal law, just as Terence proposed! Then, there is always Professor Robert Lanza to debate as well. His theory of biocentrism is so realistic, especially combined with quantum entanglement. What would Sapolsky say to Lanza!!! Interesting thought . . . .If not, my next project!
I second this question. From my own understanding I believe Sapolsky is simply following the general scientific consensus that psychoanalysis has little to offer the clinic. How far the casm between cognitive science and psychoanalysis has become is a difficult question to answer.
Alot less crime and fuckery and addiction in Japan from what I've heard one of the few countries I'd actually consider living with only one major drawback and that's the overpopulation .. I prefer less social interaction and room to roam
Think about the “why”. The collective conditioning of Japanese society. What is “acceptable” or not, “honorable” or not. Conditioning is powerful. We often aren’t aware, until we deeply examine the subconscious influences. Think also about suicide in Japan, also based on the conditioning, expectations and collective repression of emotions. Repressed emotions don’t magically disappear..the body doesn’t forget and it will come out in one way or another. It comes out, in each culture, in various ways.
Of course martial arts or military training effect then brain…just like any other repeated skill/discipline. Neuroplasticity. Firing and wiring and repetition= neuroplasticity. That’s what happens in any sport, language, training, etc….it all effects the brain.
Forgot to ask. What about Phineas Gage? Great guy, good forman on the job, personable, polite, etc. Then, a railroad spike goes through his head cutting off front of brain from the rest of his brain. Now he's vulgar, impetuous, irrational, wild swinging emotions, etc. Does this show that behavior is nothing but brain structure/function? He had a personality change but did he maintain the ability to make moral or daily living choices?
I know this is a year old but the Phineas Gage story is very debated, some sources say he really continued to be the polite person he always was; he went on to be a stage coach driver for years, you can’t have that job being an unstable loon. Maybe he could control it still? Maybe it was more of a “I almost died... yolo” thing. Fun fact: when he went to the doctor afterwards, he bent over to vomit and a “teacup sized” piece of brain fell out... and then he passed out
He wrote the lecture he can and will keep repeating it until the most ppl he can teach it to know that's why he's a teacher and a brilliant one at that For as long as ppl r listening are absorbing knowledge i hope he continues repeating his knowledgeable......good on him...
Watched it twice. Not sure I got it though. Don't pretend to be knowledgeable enough to really make a comment. But do have a Q. Acc. to what I understood here, a brain made a decision based on: hormones, wiring, structure/function, cultural history, personal history. Seems like a hyped up amygdala had the final word before the frontal cortex could digest it all. And that hyped up amygdala was heavily influenced by all the other "attributes" as he called them. Upon presentation of a stimulus: "person holding something (could be gun)" the perceiver either shot or did not shoot depending on all the previous attributes and perception under specified circumstances. Do I have that right? If I'm missing something, someone please let me know. If I'm not here's what I wonder about: What about volition? Is there a personal choice about behavior here in this scenario? It is not a moral choice in this case, just a response to a threat, assuming that the perceiver was a cop or a security guard or something similar. We're talking about a response to a stimulus. Certainly Behaviorists would have a hard time explaining this, I think because the perceiver had no prior learning history, or at least, none that we know of so it was not simply a "learned response." So, is the argument here that the shooter had no volition? No choice? Just a series of preexisting conditions "attributes" that "impelled" him to shoot, or not shoot? Breaking it down: the guy was: CHHBS/F type 1: Culture/history/hormones/brain structure/function and due to this he pulled the trigger or not? How about a moral case: Guy is jogging past an apple orchard. Signs up: "private property-keep out-no trespassing, all apples are privately owned, etc." Fences up. Guy jogs by and can easily reach in and pick an apple. No one will ever know. Does he pick or not pick? Is it also based on being a CHHBS/F type 1 or not? In other words, is the behavior determined in the same way when moral decisions are made vs arbitrary acts under given conditions? If yes, are we then accountable for our actions? Is there only immoral or violent acts made due to "volitional impairment?" Kids from the hood vs kids from the Hamptons. One kid grew up with stress which affected the growth/functioning of his frontal cortex and that's why he chooses the way he does and the other with little stress and his normal frontal cortex functions well and therefore he chooses/behaves the way he does?
Great considerations and questions. I think our subconscious programming and conditioning have enormous impact on decision making. Of course, an emergent, survival oriented decision is massively different than picking an apple (and the moral reasoning). It takes much awareness, introspection and metacognition…so one needs to have very high caliber executive functioning capabilities. It also takes training of over-riding the amygdala. That’s a Herculean effort and most people have no clue that their reptilian brain is at the helm. The subconscious is responsible for 95% of our behaviors (mostly) and the conscious aware only 5%! This is enormous in understanding human behavior as well…it’s so multifaceted and multidimensional. That’s partly what makes it endlessly fascinating. I’ll digest your questions and hope to come back, but I’m always learning too! Knowing we don’t know is probably the most profound thing we can know!!!
Fascinating and going to end up very bad when they start imprinting their "professional" conclusions on society, sounds like a recipe for literally zombifying humanity.
If’s there’s condemn violence aggression especially for the truth that I can’t twisted how mount of humanity beings justifying the twisted question or straight forgive I am not believing in only condemned is human🙏🏻. How’s war’s the mount of aggression we kneeling😿?
HA! It DID INDEED produce activism 10%+ of the 60's. In spite of pandemic we have protests worldwide. Activism at levels from White House to your house, all around the world.. (In response to final question 54:50 which must have been "What about Trump?)
@@Ellie_Kat Thanks for reading and replying. truly curious...what do you think the 4 yrs refer to? What damage does he mean is about to be done"? What about him being "Trumpet" induces upcoming activism? Why does being the Trumpet cause despair that he must escape from reality to a liberal progressive college campus? Asking in all respect and with sincere curiosity. And considering this was filmed within a few months of Trump taking office... Also, why do you think he mentions castration?... Comparing his studies of male aggression in baboon society and considering the presidents well known male aggression to society, well castration has the effect of reducing testosterone and aggression. It seems Sapolsky is saying Pres Trump is detrimental to society, not himself, an academic with a career dedicated to understanding and helping people thrive in society. I could be way in left field, just my take on it.
ah thanks I couldn't hear what she said so was hoping someone in the comments would enlighten me! That would definitely make sense of his answer - I'm in the UK so it didn't seem so obvious to me straight away!
It could also send you into a constant aggressive/aroused state- overwhelming your frontal cortex- creating massive problems for you and anyone near you. Probably just practicing the discipline of study and training up that frontal cortex will be more effective. But (bleh) initially hard till you have practiced.
Mindfulness would help you 100x’s more than testosterone. Messing with your hormones (when you haven’t had tests that say they are out of whack) is playing with fire. It can have a serious ripple effect. No hormone lives in isolation. Learning mindfulness and practicing it daily, can change the brain (neuroplasticity for the win) in incredible ways. That’s the route for overall effectiveness and improvement across every aspect of your life.
@@justinkerns2640 you are severely misinformed. Testosterone can make a person’s amygdala (the dumb ass center, for a lot of situations) perceive more situations as threatening…therefore, some people with higher testosterone will make poor decisions based on that perceived threat. Impulse control and other issues also can be poor…hence more accident deaths, car wrecks, aggressive behavior (that can end in injury or death) and other risky behaviors. None of those are showing full access to the frontal cortex (region for rational choices). I’d rethink your narratives, cognitive distortions, biases, and examine the subconscious programming and conditioning which led to you to your “conclusion”…not based in truth, but in belief. Those two are rarely synonymous.
hm...1 m&m''s (chosen) +5 m&m's (reward )= 6 m&m's (total), and 5 m&m's (chosen)+1m&m (reward)= 6 m&m''s (total), meaning you get the same amount of M&M's. So either way, they pass the Mc Naughton Test.
LMFAO I love this guys introduction he minced no words and jumped into it. Then was like is my Mic on lol. Having a fantasy severing Hitler's spine, torturing, and killing him amazing. SUBSCRIBE. I would be laughing hysterically and everyone would look at me like I am crazy.
That question about pharmaceutical intervention for kids really bugs me. The lady implies that male status-oriented behaviour fueled by testosterone is detrimental to their development. You might argue that it's backed by statistics showing that boys are falling behind girls in education. I would argue instead that the environment that boys grow up in has feminized at their expense. Rather than learning how to control and harness both aggression and status-seeking, to the benefit of society, you want to investigate chemically blocking testosterone in boys to make them easier to handle. As Prof. Peterson's rise in popularity demonstrates, boys and men are hungering to learn how to control their aggression and harness it for self-betterment. Something we should have been thought growing up - instead you'd rather feminize us further. Knowing that people like this are active in politics scares me.
You completely missed the entire point of the talk. Neurobiologist and primatologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky here is not saying that testosterone levels are a problem. He explicitly says he is not saying that. Instead it is the values of our society - rewarding aggression with status - that creates the environment where testosterone levels are correlated with aggressive behavior. No one is vilifying men. People just want society to stop rewarding aggressive behavior with status. We want that to stop because we know the science. Peterson is knowingly misleading you and everyone else who buys his books and other nonsense into continuing to line his pockets. He’s selling you a very shallow and naive ideology.
Prof. Peterson´s rise in popularity is due to guys being more and more afraid of losing their state of priviledge, making them resort to pseudo intellectuals to speak out for them, not because what he says is right
Intelligence is Love♡ and Love is Light☆Peace Love and Respect for All Beings. Namaste #evilhasnobusinessinourhearts #ProjectBonXai #barefootwalkforhumanity
we really do love violence! dont gimme that b.s about the right kind of violence people still raise and breed animals to fight to the death for our entertainment
Studying "behavior" is always a study of others, never yourself. A person's "self-image" is the best place to start any study of behavior. Take the self-image of Prof. Sapolsky for instance: His beard is grey yet his hair has no grey in it. A safe assumption is that he dyes his hair! Why would he do that? Maybe to appear more youthful? (vanity, vanity?) Of course a "Professor" is expected to be a fount of wisdom from academic achievement and experience. Experience brings age with it. So, while having youthful looking hair, a grey beard gives the visual appearance of great experience. So he can have his cake and eat it too! When I was in High School in the mid-50s, any man with long girly-looking hair was assumed to be a homosexual, especially if he had a pony tail. I know, times change, and that "assumption" is no longer valid, but still, when I see a man with long hair, it still seems to be "unmanly" to me. We are all the products of our respective generations and we change with the times "somewhat"! Prof. Sapolsky looks in the mirror and sees what he wants to look like for his own reasons. There is less deviation of appearance among college girls, but the young men seem to go to great lengths to look weird. Long hair is common, whatever that means to them. You can tell a lot from people's self-image. To me, the tattoo freaks are massively insecure. They are screaming LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, with their tattoos. It's an extreme way to get attention, but that is their choice of a self-image! I hope you find something to disagree with here!
The number of fans who have commented - I love you prof - on this video alone - shows that Prof has actually studied and modelled his behavior quite well. The pace of his speech, the layering of his points, his physical appearance.. all has come together for him.. in a manner he desires.
@@judykappeler6963 - Safe or not, my "assumption" is most likely fact. You claim to be old and I'm probably older at 81, so I too have done my share of watching how people look and behave. I'm retired Air Force and my retired wife has a doctorate in psychology from UCSD. We have many long discussions about the psychology of human behavior!
Lol videogame violence didn't help at all when it came to watching my first beheading. Games don't prepare or imitate the smell of metal in the air, it doesn't convey the gurgling and bubleing sounds. I mutch rather had spent a lifetime playing thise shifty games than to go through what I did. Games had nothing to do with it. The first Xbox was still new then.
His pace and method of teaching is incredible.
Imagine Sapolsky on cocaine
Almost hypnotic 💯
Everyone should hear this man speak.
Highly recommend his Stanford lecture series on human behaviour. Life changing.
The Stanford series is incredible. I’ve listened to each once multiple times.
He doesn't believe in "soul"? He has never witnessed a newborn baby, who seems to possess a complete personality and the 20 years later be able to say, "This is the person that I saw at the beginning". Or to hear of the collapse wave of light to a particle when only measured by a person. He is a contradiction of "scientific" evidence.
i ve been listening to him on yt since i was studying psychology. 6 years gone by and now im in the field of neuroscience finally being able to fully appreciate what he is saying. He organizes a bunch of research and connects it so well in his speech while still seeming a little chaotic, just enough to keep us engaged
That’s awesome!
I’m pursuing degrees in psychology and neuroscience too!
I already was an RN for over a decade and have a bit of introduction to neurology etc, through having had various neuro patients, although the majority of my patients were cardiac.
Now, my passions are definitely neuroscience and psychology oriented. Love the newer awareness of connections between the gut microbiome to neurotransmitters (gut brain axis) and epigenetics.
I’m also very passionate about attachment theory, consciousness, healing, neuroplasticity.
For the neuroscience curriculum I want to take almost every class, even though you have to choose out of various classes!
What are you hoping to do with your degree? There are so, so many possibilities!
Robert Sapolsky can talk about the most distressing subject matter and still manage to chill me out. There's something about how he talks that is very calming.
I got more inspiration than I did in an entire term of university. One of the most productive 36 minutes of my life.
Awww you should be proud to yourself!
There are some who are born to teach. He is one of those.
This man is by far my favourite neurobiologist!
mine too!!
who's your second and third?
He changed my life and my worldview from his books. He's amazing
@@tartanhandbag Well, not sure if Mike Posner and Jaak Panksepp could be called Neuro-Biologists, Joe LeDoux probably. "Next" are Ruth Feldmann and Steve Porges. Many more names could be put on this list, but I don't want to bug you with all the names ...
@@tartanhandbag took the words out of my mouth
I saw a same video where he said the same introduction, it's still amazing nonetheless. I binge watch this guy's lectures on standford's youtube channel. Good lord.
it is in his book, freely available introduction on Amazon
@@BaiMengLing tyyyy.
Until I listened to this, I had no idea how much there is to know, and that one person could know it. Not sure why, but this guy makes me feel hopeful. Smart guys like him usually don't do that to me.
I've just read his books and I can recognize his enormous knowledge of his field.. He is a extraordinary and phenominal educater, neurobiologist and psychiatrist. His lecture always a worth while to learn and very helpful to understand. Thanks to yourube, I can have a benefit to watch his lecture even though I don't have any other route to attend his lecture far from a distance with my residence.
Before studying any other science, the understanding of what human knowledge is built up from, is an essential part of learning to learn, inherent limitations and predispositions.
Yes learning how to learn is the best tool
SIR you are absolutely INCREDIBLE. There is literally nothing available in my already limited vocabulary to articulate what I wish I could. Ty on every heartfelt level x
Dr Sapolsky you are so captivating! Truly a blessing listening to you.
This looks interesting. I love how he point out all these personal contrdictions of ideology and philosophy in an obvious way. Politics and Prose.
I am fascinated by his teachings. The frontal cortex is the most interesting. Why we do what we do. Thanks for posting this.
The frontal cortex is indeed interesting. It isn’t the only aspect that influences why we do what we do however! That, as he said is very complex and influenced by everything from the amygdala to the hippocampus, to epigenetic changes and more. The frontal cortex is the rational center, unfortunately the limbic system more often than not runs the show.
Conscious mind (prefrontal cortex) is only responsible for about 5% of people’s behavior, while the subconscious mind (limbic system etc) is responsible for 95% of behavior!
That’s why getting having awareness, introspection and metacognition, can help one be more attune to the subconscious programming that often runs the show. It’s why mindfulness (and it’s positive neuroplasticity effects) is so powerful…it’s the harness, the pause, to the subconscious autopilot behaviors that are responsible for many self sabotaging things people do.
Fascinating lecture! Clears up many misconceptions about human behavior based on genetics, gender and culture.
Un Possible for sure. I keep coming back to this talk when it comes to the nature vs. nurture debate.
Un Possible You've got to be kidding me.
I don’t know that it clears up many misconceptions…but it does touch on some of the reasons there are misconceptions.
Misconceptions, and the clearing up of, would take much time, reprogramming of the subconscious, deep introspection and metacognition, separating out many of the conditioned beliefs… it’s a multifaceted, multi nuanced, multidimensional process to ACTUALLY clear up the misunderstandings. Many misunderstandings are built on millennia of ignorance and arrogance…and that takes a lot of work to tease and iron out.
I love you, prof. Sapolsky!
The Amygdala is the organ of violence and is located inside the Limbic System...
Fear is stored in this organ.
And it is where you're anger is stored.
Where PTSD is stored.
But the "Insular cortex" is you're moral code, where you know how to do right from wrong....
Found on the frontal (inner portion) of the cerebral cortex area.....
"This frontal cortex organ makes you do the harder things when its the right thing to do"..."its you're impulse control, you're gratification postponement, and long term planning, you're emotional regulation"
"What does the frontal cortex spend a lot of time doing? Its spends most of its time sending inhibitory projections down to the amygdala hoping to race down their in time before you act on you're impulses" so these projections going down to the amygdala helps you think before you act.
The name Pegasus means FARTS. Can you smell them?
Excellent take on what he's actually saying!
Anger and ptsd are not "stored". They are experiences that become activated within various neural networks when a person experiences which are significant to/for them. PTSD is a multidimentional/complex experience. Anger often does not involve as many neural networks as PTSD does.
Lets see, the insula is not really in the frontal cortex. It is a (small) cortex all it's own, and it kind of lies between the temporal and the frontal cortex. Also I would argue that the fear system within the brain is a complex multilayered system that includes the amygdala but is not limited to it. The insula has a number of functions it contributes to and it also helps process emotion as it is experienced bodily.
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i really enjoy listening to this man. good speaker.
If anyone hasn't seen his documentary Stress: Portrait of a Killer - must watch (for free on YT)
omg omg omg thanks so much i was running out of sapolsky things to watch xxxx
Thankyou
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I absorbed and retained every bit of this lecture. Wow.
COMMENT: Wow! No comment; due to too much to think and rethink about. This no comment is intended as a complement. Thanking Prof. Robert Sapolsky for all his long hours of study and thought...
Magnifcent, but and yet manageable for listening, to a master such as knows just about all you could conceive to know as important for human beings.
29:30 onwards on change is exceptional.
Thank you for the stamp, he’s not Jordan Peterson popular so it’s harder to share his gold nuggets with friends. Thank you for the time tag.
what a legend this man is
One the best lecturers ever
So engaging, love this guy.
my current role model/inspiration
The Prof's info is at a rate and density that is astounding!
I had learned some of what he discussed before, but this was so informative and had so much more knowledge to add. Great stuff!
I hope that a maximum of people will hear all this.
Absolutely my favorite professor
Brilliant beyond imagination
Your scientific facts help bring the truth a reality
Thank you
This man is a treasure. I keep wishing and hoping that he would sit down with Andrew Yang - the only presidential candidate who cares about and understands the impact of stress on our lives individually and societally. I wonder if anyone knows how to contact him?
Wow! Amazing talk
...What..The...Fuck...^^^ This is GARBAGE for the thrash can.
@@redragongaming What are you talking about?
Awesome Paradox when Professor Spalosky says in his book Behave page 4. " When you explain a behaviour with one of these disciplines you are implicitly envoking all of the disciplines".
Great man.
I've fallen in love with Prof Sapolsky
Such a great speaker, slipped a "turd" and elegantly hops to "herd" without the slightest trip... I woulda gone to utter shit and have been in and out of hysterics for the following hour or so.
Yes! Exactly what I thought too! 🤣
I can't stop listening to this guy speak and I love his hair and beard!
Yeah he's sexy, smart, and quirky I love it.
Insightful and concise take on this complex topic. Thanks, Dr. Sapolsky
It's nature and nurture. So many want to boil complex issues Down to one thing. Not Robert he understands nuance and complexity.
I agree with Robert's views on many subjects. He is very intelligent, insightful and entertaining:)
Love love love this man 🥰
This guy is good! This guy is really good. Thank you, sincerely.
This is fantastic
So, violence in media can increase violence in people who are already violent. So how can Professor say that violence in media is not significant to the overall violence. In other words, does Professor claim that adding gasoline to an already existing fire does not make the fire worse?
I absolutely agree that violence in media can increase and “normalize” violence. Anything we are exposed to repeatedly, has a desensitization effect.
I guess I missed where he stated that…but you have a very good point, which I absolutely agree with.
Neuroplasticity is essentially firing and wiring, over and over. It can be used for positive things, learning better communication, a sport, a language, etc…but it can also be detrimental, like when exposed to violence, harmful ideologies, and such.
24:00 WHY childhood matters
Professor Sapolsky is one of the two most influential intellectuals of our time I enjoy listening to; the other is Terence McKenna. I would have loved to have the two debate -- too bad Terence died so early in life! Need to research if any law journal articles have been published inquiring his physical explanation of the human biology. He could have a huge impact on our criminal law, just as Terence proposed! Then, there is always Professor Robert Lanza to debate as well. His theory of biocentrism is so realistic, especially combined with quantum entanglement. What would Sapolsky say to Lanza!!! Interesting thought . . . .If not, my next project!
Love this man!
Very interesting, people should know more about this behavior stuff. Also, great dude!
Santiago Pérez Silva yes!👏 well when the student is ready,.......im sure you can finish the rest!👍
13:50 يقول الله سبحانه وتعالى ( ناصية كاذبة خاطئة صدق الله العظيم )
My absolute favourite human
great talk..great insight
I continue to be baffled by Sapolsky's views on the efficacy of psychotherapy. Could anyone comment on that?
I second this question. From my own understanding I believe Sapolsky is simply following the general scientific consensus that psychoanalysis has little to offer the clinic. How far the casm between cognitive science and psychoanalysis has become is a difficult question to answer.
In the lectures that Stanford University has posted, Sapolsky does acknowledge the place that psychotherapy plays in the mental health of depressives.
🙏🏻if’s it’s faith and clinging on beliefs without no wayward how to make yourself curious life if’s you cling on why’d 😕, and doubts.
As a German Biochemist Ph D - this is the Frontier of Humantiy. The Tsunami of Dumbness will flood it away...
I was distracted by the girl who kept falling asleep behind the people asking questions lol
Thank you! very helpful!
putting his name in the thumbnail like that is very appropriate for the status Robert commands
i'm a fan of situational ethics based on time and place and cultural values at the time. i live in Japan. They would not riot in that culture.
Alot less crime and fuckery and addiction in Japan from what I've heard one of the few countries I'd actually consider living with only one major drawback and that's the overpopulation .. I prefer less social interaction and room to roam
Well, there are times in Japanese history where there is a terrible inhuman acts were perpetuated- admittedly against ‘others’
Think about the “why”. The collective conditioning of Japanese society. What is “acceptable” or not, “honorable” or not. Conditioning is powerful. We often aren’t aware, until we deeply examine the subconscious influences.
Think also about suicide in Japan, also based on the conditioning, expectations and collective repression of emotions. Repressed emotions don’t magically disappear..the body doesn’t forget and it will come out in one way or another. It comes out, in each culture, in various ways.
how do martial arts or military training affect the brain?
often when you see an injustice your more likely to jump
into action to stop it.
Of course martial arts or military training effect then brain…just like any other repeated skill/discipline. Neuroplasticity.
Firing and wiring and repetition= neuroplasticity.
That’s what happens in any sport, language, training, etc….it all effects the brain.
if I'm understanding this correctly, the insular cortex, in a meta sense, is the origin of deception? or the illusion of?
Forgot to ask. What about Phineas Gage? Great guy, good forman on the job, personable, polite, etc. Then, a railroad spike goes through his head cutting off front of brain from the rest of his brain. Now he's vulgar, impetuous, irrational, wild swinging emotions, etc. Does this show that behavior is nothing but brain structure/function? He had a personality change but did he maintain the ability to make moral or daily living choices?
I know this is a year old but the Phineas Gage story is very debated, some sources say he really continued to be the polite person he always was; he went on to be a stage coach driver for years, you can’t have that job being an unstable loon. Maybe he could control it still? Maybe it was more of a “I almost died... yolo” thing.
Fun fact: when he went to the doctor afterwards, he bent over to vomit and a “teacup sized” piece of brain fell out... and then he passed out
please anyone spell for me the question at 54:49, thank you
I think the woman was asking about how to manage with Trump as president
@@lindakautzman7388 Thank you
Bravo!!
Funny I saw him 3 different video and giving exactly the same talk
He wrote the lecture he can and will keep repeating it until the most ppl he can teach it to know that's why he's a teacher and a brilliant one at that
For as long as ppl r listening are absorbing knowledge i hope he continues repeating his knowledgeable......good on him...
Watched it twice. Not sure I got it though. Don't pretend to be knowledgeable enough to really make a comment. But do have a Q. Acc. to what I understood here, a brain made a decision based on: hormones, wiring, structure/function, cultural history, personal history. Seems like a hyped up amygdala had the final word before the frontal cortex could digest it all. And that hyped up amygdala was heavily influenced by all the other "attributes" as he called them. Upon presentation of a stimulus: "person holding something (could be gun)" the perceiver either shot or did not shoot depending on all the previous attributes and perception under specified circumstances. Do I have that right? If I'm missing something, someone please let me know.
If I'm not here's what I wonder about: What about volition? Is there a personal choice about behavior here in this scenario? It is not a moral choice in this case, just a response to a threat, assuming that the perceiver was a cop or a security guard or something similar. We're talking about a response to a stimulus. Certainly Behaviorists would have a hard time explaining this, I think because the perceiver had no prior learning history, or at least, none that we know of so it was not simply a "learned response." So, is the argument here that the shooter had no volition? No choice? Just a series of preexisting conditions "attributes" that "impelled" him to shoot, or not shoot? Breaking it down: the guy was: CHHBS/F type 1: Culture/history/hormones/brain structure/function and due to this he pulled the trigger or not?
How about a moral case: Guy is jogging past an apple orchard. Signs up: "private property-keep out-no trespassing, all apples are privately owned, etc." Fences up. Guy jogs by and can easily reach in and pick an apple. No one will ever know. Does he pick or not pick? Is it also based on being a CHHBS/F type 1 or not? In other words, is the behavior determined in the same way when moral decisions are made vs arbitrary acts under given conditions? If yes, are we then accountable for our actions?
Is there only immoral or violent acts made due to "volitional impairment?" Kids from the hood vs kids from the Hamptons. One kid grew up with stress which affected the growth/functioning of his frontal cortex and that's why he chooses the way he does and the other with little stress and his normal frontal cortex functions well and therefore he chooses/behaves the way he does?
Great considerations and questions.
I think our subconscious programming and conditioning have enormous impact on decision making. Of course, an emergent, survival oriented decision is massively different than picking an apple (and the moral reasoning).
It takes much awareness, introspection and metacognition…so one needs to have very high caliber executive functioning capabilities. It also takes training of over-riding the amygdala. That’s a Herculean effort and most people have no clue that their reptilian brain is at the helm.
The subconscious is responsible for 95% of our behaviors (mostly) and the conscious aware only 5%! This is enormous in understanding human behavior as well…it’s so multifaceted and multidimensional. That’s partly what makes it endlessly fascinating.
I’ll digest your questions and hope to come back, but I’m always learning too! Knowing we don’t know is probably the most profound thing we can know!!!
You understood a lot and these are great questions.
27:15 - He accidentally says “turd”. I know, I’m a super mature 32-year-old dad. My kids think I’m funny though.
Fascinating and going to end up very bad when they start imprinting their "professional" conclusions on society, sounds like a recipe for literally zombifying humanity.
So much common sense and science
If’s there’s condemn violence aggression especially for the truth that I can’t twisted how mount of humanity beings justifying the twisted question or straight forgive I am not believing in only condemned is human🙏🏻. How’s war’s the mount of aggression we kneeling😿?
esketit!
Simple yin and yang positive negative. Day night boy girl up down left right. Cant have one without the other.
HA! It DID INDEED produce activism 10%+ of the 60's. In spite of pandemic we have protests worldwide. Activism at levels from White House to your house, all around the world.. (In response to final question 54:50 which must have been "What about Trump?)
@@Ellie_Kat Thanks for reading and replying. truly curious...what do you think the 4 yrs refer to? What damage does he mean is about to be done"? What about him being "Trumpet" induces upcoming activism? Why does being the Trumpet cause despair that he must escape from reality to a liberal progressive college campus?
Asking in all respect and with sincere curiosity. And considering this was filmed within a few months of Trump taking office...
Also, why do you think he mentions castration?... Comparing his studies of male aggression in baboon society and considering the presidents well known male aggression to society, well castration has the effect of reducing testosterone and aggression. It seems Sapolsky is saying Pres Trump is detrimental to society, not himself, an academic with a career dedicated to understanding and helping people thrive in society. I could be way in left field, just my take on it.
ah thanks I couldn't hear what she said so was hoping someone in the comments would enlighten me! That would definitely make sense of his answer - I'm in the UK so it didn't seem so obvious to me straight away!
Be kind to others
If testosterone makes men interpret neutral social cues as aggression, then why do they always think you fancy them when you're ignoring them?
Comments of how much/in what direction a person's character may have been changed by cranial deformation?
Duncan Crow debunked
So if I take testosterone, will it make me study better/ smarter? Serious question
Probably not
YES
It could also send you into a constant aggressive/aroused state- overwhelming your frontal cortex- creating massive problems for you and anyone near you.
Probably just practicing the discipline of study and training up that frontal cortex will be more effective. But (bleh) initially hard till you have practiced.
Mindfulness would help you 100x’s more than testosterone. Messing with your hormones (when you haven’t had tests that say they are out of whack) is playing with fire. It can have a serious ripple effect. No hormone lives in isolation.
Learning mindfulness and practicing it daily, can change the brain (neuroplasticity for the win) in incredible ways. That’s the route for overall effectiveness and improvement across every aspect of your life.
@@justinkerns2640 you are severely misinformed.
Testosterone can make a person’s amygdala (the dumb ass center, for a lot of situations) perceive more situations as threatening…therefore, some people with higher testosterone will make poor decisions based on that perceived threat. Impulse control and other issues also can be poor…hence more accident deaths, car wrecks, aggressive behavior (that can end in injury or death) and other risky behaviors. None of those are showing full access to the frontal cortex (region for rational choices).
I’d rethink your narratives, cognitive distortions, biases, and examine the subconscious programming and conditioning which led to you to your “conclusion”…not based in truth, but in belief. Those two are rarely synonymous.
hm...1 m&m''s (chosen) +5 m&m's (reward )= 6 m&m's (total), and 5 m&m's (chosen)+1m&m (reward)= 6 m&m''s (total), meaning you get the same amount of M&M's. So either way, they pass the Mc Naughton Test.
LMFAO I love this guys introduction he minced no words and jumped into it. Then was like is my Mic on lol. Having a fantasy severing Hitler's spine, torturing, and killing him amazing. SUBSCRIBE. I would be laughing hysterically and everyone would look at me like I am crazy.
That question about pharmaceutical intervention for kids really bugs me. The lady implies that male status-oriented behaviour fueled by testosterone is detrimental to their development. You might argue that it's backed by statistics showing that boys are falling behind girls in education. I would argue instead that the environment that boys grow up in has feminized at their expense. Rather than learning how to control and harness both aggression and status-seeking, to the benefit of society, you want to investigate chemically blocking testosterone in boys to make them easier to handle. As Prof. Peterson's rise in popularity demonstrates, boys and men are hungering to learn how to control their aggression and harness it for self-betterment. Something we should have been thought growing up - instead you'd rather feminize us further. Knowing that people like this are active in politics scares me.
What good evidence ignoring the sociopolitical and relying on some self-help celebrity.
You completely missed the entire point of the talk. Neurobiologist and primatologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky here is not saying that testosterone levels are a problem. He explicitly says he is not saying that. Instead it is the values of our society - rewarding aggression with status - that creates the environment where testosterone levels are correlated with aggressive behavior.
No one is vilifying men. People just want society to stop rewarding aggressive behavior with status. We want that to stop because we know the science.
Peterson is knowingly misleading you and everyone else who buys his books and other nonsense into continuing to line his pockets. He’s selling you a very shallow and naive ideology.
Prof. Peterson´s rise in popularity is due to guys being more and more afraid of losing their state of priviledge, making them resort to pseudo intellectuals to speak out for them, not because what he says is right
"We" is an agreeable Frenchman.
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Just spend a few days sitting in your room- Sadhguru about longing
@Senn K yes!! I find the way he says 'monkey rape' very soothing.
Great mind. I wish he was speaking with Southern England English some call it Queens English.
He is amazing ugh ❤️❤️
He is a Robert Plant of biology.
Wow that was emotional :j
Intelligence is Love♡ and Love is Light☆Peace Love and Respect for All Beings. Namaste #evilhasnobusinessinourhearts #ProjectBonXai #barefootwalkforhumanity
we really do love violence! dont gimme that b.s about the right kind of violence people still raise and breed animals to fight to the death for our entertainment
Studying "behavior" is always a study of others, never yourself. A person's "self-image" is the best place to start any study of behavior. Take the self-image of Prof. Sapolsky for instance: His beard is grey yet his hair has no grey in it. A safe assumption is that he dyes his hair! Why would he do that? Maybe to appear more youthful? (vanity, vanity?) Of course a "Professor" is expected to be a fount of wisdom from academic achievement and experience. Experience brings age with it. So, while having youthful looking hair, a grey beard gives the visual appearance of great experience. So he can have his cake and eat it too! When I was in High School in the mid-50s, any man with long girly-looking hair was assumed to be a homosexual, especially if he had a pony tail. I know, times change, and that "assumption" is no longer valid, but still, when I see a man with long hair, it still seems to be "unmanly" to me. We are all the products of our respective generations and we change with the times "somewhat"! Prof. Sapolsky looks in the mirror and sees what he wants to look like for his own reasons. There is less deviation of appearance among college girls, but the young men seem to go to great lengths to look weird. Long hair is common, whatever that means to them. You can tell a lot from people's self-image. To me, the tattoo freaks are massively insecure. They are screaming LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, with their tattoos. It's an extreme way to get attention, but that is their choice of a self-image! I hope you find something to disagree with here!
The number of fans who have commented - I love you prof - on this video alone - shows that Prof has actually studied and modelled his behavior quite well. The pace of his speech, the layering of his points, his physical appearance.. all has come together for him.. in a manner he desires.
Not a safe assumption. I’m old and I see a lot of old guys’ hair. It is quite common for hair and beard color not to match.
@@judykappeler6963 - Safe or not, my "assumption" is most likely fact. You claim to be old and I'm probably older at 81, so I too have done my share of watching how people look and behave. I'm retired Air Force and my retired wife has a doctorate in psychology from UCSD. We have many long discussions about the psychology of human behavior!
How are you,
You are always DOING neither with either solutions is ur Assets Boss.
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I hate my insular cortex 🤔😷
cont @ 9:40
i actually share a link to this to most of my AI chatbots.
I enjoyed this , wish you had briefly gone into incarceration as a societal issue and the shifting views of the POLICE
Lol videogame violence didn't help at all when it came to watching my first beheading. Games don't prepare or imitate the smell of metal in the air, it doesn't convey the gurgling and bubleing sounds. I mutch rather had spent a lifetime playing thise shifty games than to go through what I did. Games had nothing to do with it. The first Xbox was still new then.
Hi sirje❤
that intro was disturbing
That's exactly the point.
Consider yourself fortunate, I have thoughts like that almost every day.
Modenr people ARE SO NAIVE AND OVERPROTECTED. tHEY ARE SO FAR AWAY FROM HARSH AND CRUEL REALITY OF ANCIENT WORLD.
At the end of the day he's a guy with a heavy moustache - indication of high testosterone & hard coded for certain violent instincts.
Dan Kelly Me too.
Does this disbelief of “are they listening?” comes as an inevitable side effect for learning neuroscience or psychoanalysis!!! Thats funny!!!