Prof. Robert Sapolsky – The Neuroscience Behind Behavior
Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences …
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 I know, times change, and that "assumption" is no longer valid, but still, when I see a man with long hair, it still seems to be "unmanly" to me.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!
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".
How do Artificial Intelligence precieve human to human violence? Do Artificial Intelligence know the difference between non-fiction or real, serious violence such as war and violent crime where people really get hurt or even die and fictional, not real, entertainment value violence such as Die Hard on Christmas and Robocop 1987 and boxing matches? I know that Artificial Intelligences deep learn, but don't deep understand. How do AI precieve human to AI and robot violence? Hackers hijacking and weaponizing AI and what happened to hitchhikerbot in Philadelphia or the City of Brotherly Love? Do AI have an opinion on violence at all?
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?
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?
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?
Peterson cult of crustaceans, take note: this is what real evolutionary neuroscience looks like. Also, starting with an unambiguous denunciation of Hitler and the fascist right is bigdick energy.
The part in the beginning about his fantasy to torture Hitler is bs. He says he is a "typical human" when it comes to violence? What!? What he describes is something a serial killer thinks about while masturbating!
A typical human would just shoot the bastard. This guy is an emotionally stunted child stuck in an adult body. I bet his porn history is some horrific shit. Fuck this creep.
Sanctimonious baboon groomed by millennia of Christianity in Europe to be a cunning conformist successfully playing the leftist card in modern Academia.
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?
Jonathon Haidt has done some incredibly scary work about the grievance culture on the left today with the disgust mechanism and they have othered anyone not in the ideology to that point. We are close to genocide because the moral ideology of social justice.
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.
This is why people not ready to kill others should not be allowed to join the military. I served for a couple years in US Army Infantry/OPFOR unit and had never been deployed. However, my dream until today is to be an army soldier again or a mercenary and to exterminate, extirpate, all the Al-Shabaab combatants in Somalia. I do view it as something beautiful and I am not an aggressive person.
One of the most appalling comments he made, is the fact that the “criminal justice system” of this country, pretty much ignores science, and punish a lot of people for no reason whatsoever, while known criminals are left alone (politicians, corporations and rich people). This has to change.
Dear Roberto, If a person does not learn to separate science from theology they will never know GOD or His purpose for man on earth. This is because it is impossible to explain theology in a scientific manner. To begin with, theology is everything reveled to man from God. The knowledge of the Greek Orthodox Church is begotten through Revelation where the purpose of worship is to purify one's self to unite with God in order to know God personally! To the Orthodox returning to the presence of God and Salvation is the same thing! Logic and Science is only the eye through which man can see the all wisdom and creativity of God! Most scientists unfortunately, choose to deify creation and ignore the creator totally! However the end is the same for all! ….[Galatians 6:7-8] 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
The purpose of the godlike beings is one: to become gradually perfect as God the Father to become "a god by Grace" , to attain Theosis, Deification, Christificication , Trinification. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDscgffIHJ4
Mental health overlooks the presence of the soul in a person and treats man as though he is mind alone and not mind and soul both. Full Psychiatric/psychology recovery must mean – to heal BODY (the mind) and SOUL (heart) both. The nature of the illness of the heart/soul and the way the mind reacts to it is known by the Church for 2000 years now The reaction of a healthy mind to an ill begotten heart causes a chemical un balance known as psychiatric illnesses. This is because according to the Holy Fathers the mind of the MIND~ is the CONSCIENCE. Furthermore man was created so that his MIND (body) to be with his HEART/psyche to be ONE and the same thing.
The medicine of Psychiatry will help with the symptoms but it will not cure the ill begotten heart that causes the symptoms! An aspirin with stop the pain or the headeachache (the symptoms), but it will not cure what caused it, (the illness) [Matthew 15-19] “FOR OUT OF THE HEART PROCEED EVIL THOUGHTS MURDERS ADULTERIES FORNICATIONS THEFTS FALSE WITNESS BLASPHEMIES” Further more vainglory, ego, envy, hatred, lustiness stinginess and greed are equally strong passions that siege the heart (self will) and force the mind (body) in the un natural act of sin.
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.
oh wait… but, this is actual Intelligence though? As in, not some all-encompassing digital network of synthesized "minds" that communicate and collect information pertaining specifically to unsuspecting users who do or do not find this whole monetizing process of criminally invasive quasi-spontaneous sponsored ad/google education, intelligent, or yet, offensive and unwarranted.
get some.
I hate my insular cortex 🤔😷
Hitler was one man.How many people carried out the actions under his authority?
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!
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".
How do Artificial Intelligence
precieve human to human violence? Do Artificial Intelligence know the difference between non-fiction or real, serious violence such as war and violent crime where people really get hurt or even die and fictional, not real, entertainment value violence such as Die Hard on Christmas and Robocop 1987 and boxing matches? I know that Artificial Intelligences deep learn, but don't deep understand.
How do AI precieve human to AI and robot violence? Hackers hijacking and weaponizing AI and what happened to hitchhikerbot in Philadelphia or the City of Brotherly Love?
Do AI have an opinion on violence at all?
Comments of how much/in what direction a person's character may have been changed by cranial deformation?
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?
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?
Love love love this man 🥰
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?
The Prof's info is at a rate and density that is astounding!
Very interesting, people should know more about this behavior stuff. Also, great dude!
As a German Biochemist Ph D – this is the Frontier of Humantiy. The Tsunami of Dumbness will flood it away…
we really should inject Buddist monks with testosterone.
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.
29:30 onwards on change is exceptional.
Peterson cult of crustaceans, take note: this is what real evolutionary neuroscience looks like. Also, starting with an unambiguous denunciation of Hitler and the fascist right is bigdick energy.
what a legend this man is
The part in the beginning about his fantasy to torture Hitler is bs. He says he is a "typical human" when it comes to violence? What!? What he describes is something a serial killer thinks about while masturbating!
A typical human would just shoot the bastard. This guy is an emotionally stunted child stuck in an adult body. I bet his porn history is some horrific shit. Fuck this creep.
24:00 WHY childhood matters
Who has the unbearable inability to lie
Sanctimonious baboon groomed by millennia of Christianity in Europe to be a cunning conformist successfully playing the leftist card in modern Academia.
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?
Jonathon Haidt has done some incredibly scary work about the grievance culture on the left today with the disgust mechanism and they have othered anyone not in the ideology to that point. We are close to genocide because the moral ideology of social justice.
I continue to be baffled by Sapolsky's views on the efficacy of psychotherapy. Could anyone comment on that?
It's difficult to stop a boulder that has been rolling for centuries, no matter how ridiculous the boulder is.
He is amazing ugh ❤️❤️
Just spend a few days sitting in your room- Sadhguru about longing
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.
This is why people not ready to kill others should not be allowed to join the military. I served for a couple years in US Army Infantry/OPFOR unit and had never been deployed. However, my dream until today is to be an army soldier again or a mercenary and to exterminate, extirpate, all the Al-Shabaab combatants in Somalia. I do view it as something beautiful and I am not an aggressive person.
sounds smart but a thorough analysis reveals a lack of insight.
One of the most appalling comments he made, is the fact that the “criminal justice system” of this country, pretty much ignores science, and punish a lot of people for no reason whatsoever, while known criminals are left alone (politicians, corporations and rich people). This has to change.
if I'm understanding this correctly, the insular cortex, in a meta sense, is the origin of deception? or the illusion of?
So if I take testosterone, will it make me study better/ smarter? Serious question
Dear Roberto,
If a person does not learn to separate science from theology they will never know GOD or His purpose for man on earth. This is because it is impossible to explain theology in a scientific manner.
To begin with, theology is everything reveled to man from God.
The knowledge of the Greek Orthodox Church is begotten through Revelation where the purpose of worship is to purify one's self to unite with God in order to know God personally! To the Orthodox returning to the presence of God and Salvation is the same thing! Logic and Science is only the eye through which man can see the all wisdom and creativity of God! Most scientists unfortunately, choose to deify creation and ignore the creator totally! However the end is the same for all! ….[Galatians 6:7-8] 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
The purpose of the godlike beings is one: to become gradually perfect as God the Father to become "a god by Grace" , to attain Theosis, Deification, Christificication , Trinification.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDscgffIHJ4
this fucking pussy wouldnt do shit
Bravo!!
Mental health overlooks the presence of the soul in a person and treats man as though he is mind alone and not mind and soul both.
Full Psychiatric/psychology recovery must mean – to heal BODY (the mind) and SOUL (heart) both. The nature of the illness of the heart/soul and the way the mind reacts to it is known by the Church for 2000 years now
The reaction of a healthy mind to an ill begotten heart causes a chemical un balance known as psychiatric illnesses. This is because according to the Holy Fathers the mind of the MIND~ is the CONSCIENCE. Furthermore man was created so that his MIND (body) to be with his HEART/psyche to be ONE and the same thing.
The medicine of Psychiatry will help with the symptoms but it will not cure the ill begotten heart that causes the symptoms! An aspirin with stop the pain or the headeachache (the symptoms), but it will not cure what caused it, (the illness)
[Matthew 15-19] “FOR OUT OF THE HEART PROCEED EVIL THOUGHTS MURDERS ADULTERIES FORNICATIONS THEFTS FALSE WITNESS BLASPHEMIES” Further more vainglory, ego, envy, hatred, lustiness stinginess and greed are equally strong passions that siege the heart (self will) and force the mind (body) in the un natural act of sin.
Elder Porphyrios: Overcoming Depressionhttp://orthodoxhealing.blogspot.com/2010/03/elder-porphyrios-overcoming-depression.html
The Role of the Soul in Psychiatry and Psychology
https://www.psychreg.org/soul-psychiatry-psychology/
His voice is so goddamn soothing!
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.
My favorite type of violance is when bull stub with horns a Matador …real hard …in the a*s…hehe
oh wait… but, this is actual Intelligence though? As in, not some all-encompassing digital network of synthesized "minds" that communicate and collect information pertaining specifically to unsuspecting users who do or do not find this whole monetizing process of criminally invasive quasi-spontaneous sponsored ad/google education, intelligent, or yet, offensive and unwarranted.
Just found this video after youtubing professor Sapolsky , love you professor Sapolsky 💕💕💕💕💕💕
Motive.