Behave by Robert Sapolsky, PhD (Enhanced audio)
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- How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic - and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we do what we do, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky looks at extreme context, examining actions on timescales from seconds to millions of years before they occurred. In this fascinating talk, he shares his cutting edge research into the biology that drives our worst and best behaviors.
Dr. Sapolsky is simply brilliant. He talked about hormones, neurochemistry, and genetics the whole time and explained it so well that everyone could get it. Fantastic
If you're a "typical human" then I must be ...god knows what. I don't have such horrible fantasies.
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Can a non biology student read this book?
Sapolsky is my favourite “popular” scientist in the neurology/psychology field. I could listen to him for hours!
Agreed
you can listen to him for hours, what is stopping you?
I think Huberman is someone you will enjoy.
@@Linusrox123 thanks for the recommendation I checked him out and he seems pretty cool!!
“Popular” is a real word. Why did you put quotes around it?
All the time I wasted trying to cope with boring professors. Love this guy and... learned a lot. Wish I knew this 35 years ago
What's ur age?
Sapolsky is my school of life.
I think I have to devour all of his speeches on youtube. How can I be someone like him with excellent verbal fluency? Especially when public speaking! It's like there's no gap in his thinking and everything flows very gracefully from his mouth!
Dwika Febrianto
He's been lecturing forever and he knows his spiel...very engaging style!
he has been repeating this over and over for a long time. I've heard most of this throughout his lectures. If you do something over and over and over again, it becomes second nature to you
Even though I have heard him speak about this topic several times, he keeps my attention. He still lights up when he gives this lecture. Thanks.
Simple! He was practıcing before his speach..
One can only do that with hours of expertise and real knowledge. I’m sure someone will disagree, and they can fuck right off.
"Oxytocin doesn't make us nicer; it makes us nicer towards people we are already predisposed to be nice to." I hear people talk about how we "need more empathy." We don't. We don't need any kind of instinctive behavior more. We need more careful consideration and deliberate behavior. We need to try and remove the situations where instinct takes over. We evolved in a world much different from the current one.
Hold my prefrontal cortex.
Haha, the point is that there is no part of you that would have such an effect, these 'instinctual' parts of you are all there is to it...
@@atillabotondkelemen6520 True or at least largely true, but instincts can be steered by environment. We need to build situations where instinctive reaction is pro-social.
Dan Dennett makes an argument that while we lack "free will," we have what he calls "free won't." That we can choose to _not_ do something. IDK, but I do know that you can build the maze in a way that makes the rats go where you want them to and that we need to be doing that in society.
@@atillabotondkelemen6520 no. not all. you can think, can't you? then decide based on the conclusion of your thinking?
@@dickhamilton3517 "you can think can't you" what do you mean by think? think freely or deduce a conclusion and act accordingly based on your environment and instincts
This is the best thing that happened on TH-cam! Best 56 minutes ever!
This lecture is so easy to grasp. Other lectures are much more complicated, because of the amount of knowledge this man has.I adore Mr. Sapolsky
His answer about Contact therapy being difficult and likely to make things worse if not done just right makes me as a teacher reflect on how Cooperative group learning also needs close monitoring to avoid social abuse of people who are different.
Dr. Sopolsky is an amazing scientist and communicator. He makes his lectures engaging and interesting.
"Since then [age 13] I have had zero capacity for religiosity, spirituality, or for believing that the universe is anything other than cold, empty, unempathic, and pointless. And I've been depressed ever since" (Sapolsky December 2020).
Perhaps Sapolsky's adolescent rebellion against an overly strict religious upbringing, and the resultant depression concomitant upon those decisions have drawn him into an obsessive need to rationalize those materialist presuppositions which he may be unwilling to discard. One’s adolescent rebellion against legalism together with a cultural predisposition which adamantly refutes any hint of theological syncretism should not blind a brilliant mind to that which is. The learned professor it seems has determined not only that there is no God, but oddly enough, that there are no scientists.
What an absolute masterclass! Lessons here liberate us from many historical misunderstandings of how we are and empower us to elevate.
This guy is a treasure, and treasures are rare!
Accidentally opened this page and stayed to the end.
The enhanced audio made me 10 times more hooked to this video
What a great speaker! I admire his lectures.
God lol
It’s complicated being human!
Sapolsky is always spot on
not for everything, nope
Here's a new SAT analogy question. Nirvana is to The Foo Fighters are to Joy Division is to _____. A. Joy Electric. b. Nine Inch Nails c. New Order.
@@angelinarobert622 c. New Order. Foo fighters were created by Dave Grohl, famously the drummer for Nirvana and New Order were formed after the death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division.
I wouldn't know. I'm not an expert.
robert way of framing the question of why on human behaviour reminds me of Richard Feynman answering the question why magnet attracts
"Change, nothing stays the same." - Van Halen
I would love to see this Master have a couple of beers, and step Up on stage and do a little stand-up comedy. This guy has potential talent!
Robert is great. I mean, just a fantastic aw-inspiring man who has touched my life in the most meaningful ways. Easily the most influential professor I have ever had
💛 He's absolutely delightful and wonderful. What a great privilege to encounter his teaching
You’re so lucky to have had him as a professor.
Excellent video. Many thanks.
Thank you! I will listen to this several times.
Thanks for posting really great video and book too.
This is so interesting! Worth watching more than once.
How he makes the comparison with us and them and triggering disgust sensitivity against them and confusion with morality.
Literally same thing happening but it’s hard to spot is when people now consider themselves as cancer on this planet. This is another step. They becomes us, and us are disgusting. Self discrimination.
Doesn’t happen with everyone but there is a group of people who believe that they and everyone else is just “disgusting”
I love that 10 minutes felt like an hour so far. Awesome
Why is the following such small audience ? Sapolsky is is my go to for inspiration and realness in this weird but troublesome world
Maybe because he makes people go deeper into themselves and evaluate their own flaws? It is hard to admit things about yourself and aciviely work on them. I struggle with it haha
Isn't You Tube big enough for you?
Excellent talk.
Excellent Sapolksy's audio and speech content, thank you for sharing it!
Absolutely fascinating.
Thank you professor, you are a Master. You informed us of Who the heck we are in such a beautiful way. Animals with evolving brains. (primates)
Excellent,I love this guy.
Thank u blessed souls⚘🌷🌹🙇♀️
“As an explanation of the world, materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has just the quality of the madman’s argument; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out… for the madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason… and it is our case against this exhaustive and logical theory of the lunatic that, right or wrong, it gradually destroys his humanity” (G.K.Chesterton)
It is so amazing to be to watch this online
we need more Buddhist monks on Testosterone.
We need a new society
Lmaooo
what a voice !
Thank you. I really enjoyed this. I will be buying the book
Thanks for audio fix!
Excellent presentation, a brilliant thinker and speaker.
Laconic summary of the book "Behave". Brilliantly! Worth reading and re-reading!
This man is the best!
excellent
Thanks to the TH-cam Algorithm I found this Lecture and Robert Sapolsky. Great lecture and serves a base to learn something new which I didn't know before.
This was eye-opening.
Insula cortex ..
Stroke damage to IC .. you lose all smoking addiction. GONE next day.
This is a facinating video..
This is just insanely good
Thank you dr. Sapolsky, such an eye opening message thank you for your studies this will help me for years to come. I was scared of my mind and mentally and now it makes sense and I can move to brighter pastures.
To be fair, the examples of "bad" behavior are the norm and those extraordinary moments of decency are the exceptions.
This awesome dude is blowing my mind.
There are seventeen or so of his lectures at Stanford on evolutional biology that are easy to understand and very easy to listen to.
UN should listen to this before discussing Israel-Palestine
Amazing! Would love to hear Dr Sapolsky discuss the effects of certain illegal drugs, such as meth, and if that can cause a previously non violent person to behave violently.
fan!
My best paperback, I bought. Good Man like that Research he did also.
It is absolute insanity that sopalski is on CSPAN2, why aren’t people listening to this man
Same reason 50/50 split exists with Jordan Peterson. Half love him and Half hate him.... because his message says "it's hard" and "you're not a victim"..... Difference is Sapolsky says more "establishment" friendly things but his message tells us that it's not 0-1 or on and off. The new cult is too morally puristic to tolerate any grey areas. So they don't watch him. He says testosterone is not the problem. The value system is....That's too much like men aren't pure evil. So he must be ignored.
{لَّقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ لِّمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو اللَّهَ وَالْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ وَذَكَرَ اللَّهَ كَثِيرًا} [الأحزاب : 21]
( 21 ) There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often.
{لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِيهِمْ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ لِّمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو اللَّهَ وَالْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ ۚ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ} [الممتحنة : 6]
( 6 ) There has certainly been for you in them an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day. And whoever turns away - then indeed, Allah is the Free of need, the Praiseworthy.
Wow.
Interesting
My favorite scientist. Long live
It's not ethically okay to fantasize about killing Hitler horribly. It just develops that evil within you.
It's really important to re-humanise, even have empathy for the worst of us, so we can be aware of those qualities within ourselves, then put in place strategies to recognise, negate and weaken them over time.
19:26 that's such a beautiful image
Absolutely an above-average american scientist that the U.S. should be proud of having. I would love to see him as the head of the pentagon.
"Since then [age 13] I have had zero capacity for religiosity, spirituality, or for believing that the universe is anything other than cold, empty, unempathic, and pointless. And I've been depressed ever since" (Sapolsky December 2020).
Perhaps Sapolsky's adolescent rebellion against an overly strict religious upbringing, and the resultant depression concomitant upon those decisions have drawn him into an obsessive need to rationalize those materialist presuppositions which he may be unwilling to discard. One’s adolescent rebellion against legalism together with a cultural predisposition which adamantly refutes any hint of theological syncretism should not blind a brilliant mind to that which is. The learned professor it seems has determined not only that there is no God, but oddly enough, that there are no scientists.
Thanks for posting. I can listen to this man all day. Have you heard the podcast between him and Sam Harris on the subject of free will?
Marjorie Bishop its my pleasure! I had to something about the original bad audio. And yes, the sam harris coversation is also wonderful!
No, but I need many repeats of this before I can absorb more !
No...but I will. I'm going through "behave " auido book slowly. 🤗
i've listened to most videos of Robert Sapolsky video on Freewill or lack there of but not the Sam Harris video. Sam Harris doesn't have alpha male santa beard.
i've seen part of it but the sound quality was poor. Have you seen Crash Couse's Determinism vs Free Will？
Is my Moral Delight with your lecture a function of the Insular Cortex, Amygdala or Frontal Cortex?
Guess you captured all three together. Thank you!
At first viewing, one is controlled in reactions by upbringing, just as the professor is relating to us.
BEHAVE! is what is shouted at you because you don't know what to do and neither does the person shouting, as if we have inherent logical knowledge of how to do things, and you could make the elemental e-Pi-i sync-duration resonance case for instinctive ESP like observation and copying behaviours, if-when you are consciously aware of the sharing sense-in-common cause-effect connection with all things human.
Reiteration from First Principle Observation of WYSIWYG holographic positioning presence nucleation Singularity-point awareness, all prof Sapolsky's output is valuable to our review of the human condition.
Where and when is this talk being given? Thanks in advance for the info
So by the end of the talk he basically submits to it always being this way for us humans.
Cool
The frontal cortex sounds like my conscience in over drive. Doing the right thing when doing the harder thing is the right thing to do. my brain takes mre than 5o miliseconds, to processes it. i have a learning disability of slow processing.
What is the last comment the person in the audience said? I have repeat it 5 tienes and couldn't understand
RESPIRATION IS THE REAL ANSWER TO DESPIRATION !
It takes balls to be still & not bestial no matter what sex we think we are!
all exists!
This person is a whole Encyclopaedia
To sum it up: it's complicated.
the closed captioning isn't working.
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I have to come back to this video but I hope he talks about estrogen next. It tends to be associated with "irrational" behavior when linked to women, much like tetesterone is associated with "aggressive" behavior when linked to men.
Although ai disagree with some of his beliefs, I can agree that this man speaks well and I am really interested to hear what he has to say
ai only knows what is programmed into it.
Curious what “beliefs” of his that you don’t agree with…
what if anti-epileptic side effects increase fear but not to the point of anxiety? does that increase aggression and testosterone?
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Great clarity of thought and expression. The question by person who mentioned Buddhist monks and Vipassana type of practice yields great results, but cannot be measured by science who needs humans to behave like an animal species. While Dr Sapolsky studies on testosterone or oxytocin emphasize the need for predisposition and environmental upbringing that establishes a lot by age 5, the variation from person to person differentiates humans as beings from animals as species and that confuses science a bit because humans cannot be treated like lab rats. A being is so different to an animal specie, but the latter is the only thing to study and then try to apply it to humans. The east has the answers but not the explanations acceptable to modern science. So even the East is losing their culture because science considers it voodoo.
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Robert SAPOLSKY Playlist - - -> th-cam.com/play/PLWdH6fjvojoj7ydKWHzTcAUxjnN5-peET.html
Thank you, Michalis.
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Isn't he the wisest man on earth?
"In your dreams Pedro, in your dreams."
-Big Al
To the lady asking the first question: Dr Sapolsky didn't say the children suffered brain trauma. He said that their circumstances hold them back. BTW socioeconomics is the culprit for children from families of lesser means.
What an utter travesty that a video like this has only tens of thousands of views, while the current asinine media reports have millions...
The two have little to do with each other and his series on the Stanford channel does have millions of views. Still criminally under-viewed but that shouldn't be your reaction to a free lecture. Or drawing the illogical link between a lecture on neuroscience and "current media" whatever that is.
Am curious to learn if - maybe not if, but how - areas of the brain such as the amygdala can be altered or changed from various TBIs such as concussions or exposure to a severe explosion, or even a football injury? What about severe stress such as combat? I have to review - what about the hypothalamus?
Painful but important to consider what happened at My Lai. What caused all those men to mow down those civilians without thinking about it? It was like they were all on "auto-pilot" following orders. At what point and how does a soldier stop and say this order is illegal and question it?
In perhaps a similar situation but a much happier event I was once standing on the floor of a large concert (Winterland - SF) with a friend. He and I were focused on each other and not the crowd in general. The floor area in front of that stage must have held at least several hundred if not a thousand or more people. Suddenly this gigantic wave of energy swept through the crowd and everyone - every last person in front of that stage and then some - all sat down on the floor at the exact same time. Except me and my friend. We weren't on the same wavelength and were left standing, but we could feel it. It was astonishing. It happened in the blink of an eye, very fast, without thinking. It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen in my life.
Could the same or similar forces have been at work at My Lai? People taking action or behaving without thinking, all following each other? How do we avoid becoming lemmings headed for a cliff?
Trying to share this discussion by Hugh Thompson - hope this flys -
web.archive.org/web/20220204200327/www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/ThompsonPg1-28_Final.pdf
Thanks for sharing - good lecture.
Entertaining, informative and well-analyzed. However, what realistic solutions does he give? I mean practical methods that can be implemented here and now.
R Karlsson Easy, nurture the nice wolf...;) Grow the frontal "mom" lobe?
Decrease the amount of amygdala triggers?
R Karlsson oh...just caught...reduce rewarding aggression and aggressive behavior. Lol...Pavlov?😁
Indoctrination towards "positive violence" instead of actual? xD I don't know
Understand why we are the way we are so that we have further power to override our instincts and strengthen our prefrontal cortex’s critical thinking patterns
Bob, you're an absolute genius. You need a younger audience. If you ever come to New Orleans, lmk.
Younger audience?? He's a professor... pretty much all his audience is young lol
I need prescription glasses to watch this blur. How did the video quality get so screwed up?
i would really like to see this scientist read up on alot of material on some like Isreal Keys and print or youtube his impression and opinion of what he thinks what was the drive and craving vehicles that made this idividual take the path he did with such certain motivation. Id be first inline to buy that paperback
16:34 amygdala cheats on a regular basis!
Is this the full book? Because it starts the same..I haven't bought it though..
No, it’s just a brief sweep through. The book goes deeper and certainly worth the read
@23:36 nurture
46:44
Sapolsky C-Span
th-cam.com/video/pGJD0P2r8YQ/w-d-xo.html
00:00 - INTRODUCTION
00:00 - The fantasy (arresting Hitler)
01:29 - I’ve had versions of this fantasy since I was a kid. / We don’t hate violence. We hate and fear the wrong kind of violence.
03:13 - How do you begin to make sense of us?
04:37 - 1) THE BEHAVIOR
05:24 - 2) ONE SECOND BEFORE
05:32 - The Amygdala
[the archetypal limbic structure, sitting under the cortex in the temporal lobe. It is central to mediating aggression, along with other behaviors that tell us tons about aggression.]
06:27 - “You cannot understand the first thing about the neurobiology of violence without understanding the neurobiology of fear.”
06:51 - The Insular Cortex
[processes gustatory disgust. Ditto for disgusting smells. Remarkably, humans also activate it by thinking about something morally disgusting-social norm violations or individuals who are typically stigmatized in society.]
09:20 - the upside of the Insular Cortex processing of moral disgust/outrage
09:53 - the downside
Also see:
_Robert Sapolsky - Is moral disgust just bad evolution? (Big Think)_ :
th-cam.com/video/BavY9XqOrKA/w-d-xo.html
11:21 - The Frontal Cortex
[its list of expertise includes working memory, executive function (organizing knowledge strategically, and then initiating an action based on an executive decision), gratification postponement, long-term planning, regulation of emotions, and reining in impulsivity/impulse control. _The frontal cortex makes you do the harder thing when it’s the right thing to do._ ]
14:28 - 3) SECONDS TO MINUTES BEFORE
- Sensory Triggers of Behavior
- Subliminal and Unconscious Cuing/Priming
- Interoceptive Information
- Unconscious Language Effects
- Even Subtler Types of Unconscious Cuing
- Complicating Piece of the Story (as a complication, the brain can alter the sensitivity of those sensory modalities, making some stimuli more influential. But the brain also sends neuronal projections to sensory organs. During acute stress, all of our sensory systems become more sensitive.)
17:14 - 4) HOURS TO DAYS BEFORE: Hormones
17:37 - Testosterone
19:44 - Oxytocin
22:47 - 5) DAYS TO MONTHS BEFORE: Neural Plasticity
23:33 - 6) ADOLESCENCE; OR, DUDE, WHERE’S MY FRONTAL CORTEX?
24:42 - 7) BACK TO THE CRIB, BACK TO THE WOMB
25:49 - 8) BACK TO WHEN YOU WERE JUST A FERTILIZED EGG
27:00 - 9) CENTURIES TO MILLENNIA BEFORE
27:56 - Cultural differences come from ecosystems
28:40 - 10) THE EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR
29:21 - Conclusion / It’s complicated, so be real careful
29:49 - Single most important thing: Change
36:23 - Q&A
36:52 - Q1: Future of neurology/neuroscience/neuroendocrinology
39:08 - Q2: Institutionising mindfulness
Meditation, psychotherapy. (misunderstood question)
41:54 - Q3: Violence on TV, violent video games
44:04 - Q5: Volitional Impairment, Poverty = stress = developmental disadvantage to frontal cortex
47:48 - Q6: Testosterone and status, pharmacology.
(There is a panaceum though: mindfulness meditation, loving-kindness meditation, MDMA/DMT)
51:09 - Q8: Amygdala, PTSD
(once again, there is a remedy-mindfulness meditation)
56:27 - OK, so thank you
The frontal cortex is where your personality(spirit) lives, emotions,empathy etc,oh and it's God's temple.
"Testosterone does not cause aggression."