#19: Phobias, Apotemnophilia, Youthful Biases | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews

[@justinko]

That dog is just sitting there getting a double massage lol

[@stvbrsn]

Safi is a softie.

[@AbsurdBear]

15:34 The ball drops!! The anticipation throughout the entire video was intense.

[@noarelax]

...like all of us... Safi is completely spellbound by this Father-Offspring interview...taking in every word!🥰

[@polar199]

Patiently waiting for a game of fetch.

[@andrewbaker8373]

I think this series has a wonderful formulae of talents with daughter and dad in presentation and effective communication. Thank you

[@meee4217]

I LOVE your dog. Omg. I love your whole family. You are all blessed.

[@noellecuisine8912]

You Great Guys! And Love Sophie ! Greetings from the Netherlands

[@Pii2cs]

oh god you two switched places how will i know who is who??

[@rachel.s-s]

We just want to help keep your frontal cortexes sharp!

[@robotempire]

Who is WHOM

[@gbernardwandel4174]

Easy peasy Which one of them is science and which one of them is the beard? 🙄 Ok…that was stupid

[@yx-l2853]

Two questions from Indonesia: 1. To the Offspring: How is it like to be the offspring of a encyclopedic father? 2. What kind of concoction is fed to the golden retriever to become so huge?

[@jimwilliams3816]

As someone with heritable anxiety issues (among other things) who grew up in a deeply behaviorist era, I remain indebted to Robert Sapolsky for his explanations of how neuroscience and physiology can factor heavily into cognitive issues. It is hard enough to have neurobehavioral challenges, and having to deal with those who insist that these things occur solely because of weird ideas that you allowed into your head can make a bad situation worse.

[@mcd5478]

5 seconds into the video I realize I’m grinning ear to ear. Safi and the love shown towards this pupperoni calms my brain💛🥰 As always, great Q&A. Thx! 🫶🏻

[@Sylar-451]

I am episodes behind on this channel and deeply ashamed of myself... but one of my very few must watch channels!

[@Yoseb-d6g]

My favorite show!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Dr S is so great !! Thank you offspring ! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@jeremymr]

3:04 - Safi lurking with the ball in her mouth had me in stitches. Totally a cryptid. 😂

[@Khiff]

Thank you for these videos. A great way to start my day! 😊

[@christinley5213]

Pleeeease… throw the ball!!!!!!hahaha lol!:) i love that you love doing this.. your passion is contagious:)

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

They have such lovely hair.

[@Appleblade]

lol... RS describing these surprising fixations while Arfy-the-Dog is busy showing the world his obsession with that gd ball.

[@BradC44]

Love this channel and look forward to weekly videos. I've been a big fan of Dr. Sopolsky for years, especially his book Behave. Thanks so much offspring and Doc.

[@nancychace8619]

Yes, the dog changes everything... Fighting spider discussion reminds me of the jumping frogs of Calaveras County. I think they still have that contest - not sure. Interesting to consider how people make their decisions. Better think long and hard about that one, America.

[@BanjoMic3728]

What is daydreaming? How can I seemingly transport myself to other places

[@EricAnderson58]

please do a discussion of the influence of circumcision on the infant brain. I only saw in Determined a passing mention of Genital Cutting. I am in court in FL (Pro Se), suing a State Attorney for witholding law enforcement services from juvenile male citizens. The matter is easily reviewed by searching YT for 'infant circumcision procedure.' #intactivism PS-you may enjoy The Hidden Trauma by psychologist Ron Goldman, PHd.

[@Shmooper_Dooper]

I second this question!

[@jimwilliams3816]

I would be interested in that too. I am very late diagnosed ASD 1, and I am aware that one of the reasons for the rise of the anti-vax movement was that the onset of visible traits will sometimes correlate with times of vaccination. My baby pictures suggest to me a pretty significant shift in my first six months, and though I don’t subscribe to anti-vex theory, I do debate other possible external factors. Given that ASD diagnosis has largely been focused on males until recently, circumcision would be one common shared experience. This seems particularly significant in that there has been considerable discussion in the online autism community of late regarding the likelihood that many autistic traits, as defined by the DSM, may in fact be stress responses of the type that an autistic mind will display. ASD aside, I am certainly aware that I my anxiety is largely rooted in the heritable stress predisposition that Sapolsky has noted: prenatal exposure to my mother’s high levels of glucocorticoids. Also what I refer to as “the Sapolsky graph”: the dramatic effect predisposition can have on the response to external factors. My definition of my childhood is that nothing too bad happened, but I take things hard. And I once observed an animal correlary to circumcision: as a teen, we had sheep in the pasture behind my house. One spring, I watched the newly birthed lambs bounding around the pasture, playing and, I would say, exuding happiness. Then one day, I noticed that they were all milling, subdued. Their tails had been bobbed. I never saw them bound around after that; it seemed to me that they had discovered that the world was not the happy, safe space they imagined. As a hypervigilant person, this was either projection or identification on my part. I am not sure if they use some anesthetic when circumcising these days - they damn sure didn’t in my time. What I know as horse serum formulations of vaccines were also still around, for that matter. I don’t know if any I got as an infant were of that type, but I received a tetanus booster at around age ten that was, and it was astonishingly painful.

[@Shmooper_Dooper]

@@jimwilliams3816 the sheep remind me of myself. repeated testicular torsion as a child then paranoid surrounding that until my late teens definitely left a drastic effect on me that is clearly visible in photos. Very happy until it started around age 12. I felt very isolated being in pain others didn’t have. Went to ER to have it corrected by a doctor but it kept happening. I’m just venting here but circumcision has to have lasting effects not just because of the initial pain but the reduced sensitivity later on. I’m using a mantor retainer to stretch my foreskin which is an improvement but probably not the same as the real thing due to the lack of a rigid band.

[@victorianicole8192]

Question: Harambe, the gorilla that was shot in 2016 - was he actually protecting the three year old that went down in his enclosure? Some people say he was violently dragged by the gorilla, others say the gorilla was attempting to keep him safe - what was going on there? I feel like I NEED to know so I can die in peace.

[@mcd5478]

Great question! 👍🏼

[@paulroberts7767]

My family spent an exciting evening catching Huntsman Spiders with Dr Peter Jager -wonderful man-arachnologist from the University of Düsseldorf. He showed us (ok, my young son; wife and I were just too creeped out) how to catch these big fast predatory spiders by hand! “They can’t really hurt you…much”, he said. Then one particularly large specimen turned and nearly bit him! This exposed Peter’s innate fear, his reaction sending the prize specimen sailing off into the warm Philippine night! 😂

[@KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

On question #2, Dr. V.J. Ramachandran has done extensive work in the field of apotemnophilia - quite fascinating, as is this series of yours!

[@a.bodhichenevey1601]

Outstanding! I wish the existing social realities could embrace the fact that they are all made up--products of collective brain consensuses--and use the physical reality of the brain's neurobiological mechanisms for making decisions of governance. But then, that would blow up in our face as well. Individually, I guess our goal remains doing the harder better thing until it is easy, and encourage that process in others.

[@charlaporro]

lo siento pero mi ingles es demasiado malo y me daria mucha vergüenza equivicarme aqui jajajajaj, acabo de descubir el canal,habia visto antes algunas clases de standford pero no me imaginaba que Robert tuviera un canal propio, solo queria agradecer por todo lo que he aprendido gracias a usted, aunque a veces tengo problemas con el concepto de especie y no estoy seguro si realmente puedo considerarme una comunidad biologica a parte a la de mis padres, y digo padres por poner una linea pero el camino puede seguir mucho mucho mucho mas hacia atras, a veces pienso en toda la vida del planeta como un unico ser, amandose, odiandose, comiendose... lo cual nos hace a todos canibales jajajjaja, osea, mas de lo que ya lo consideraba, y perdon, que me extiendo mucho, gracias por compartir tanta información

[@charlaporro]

una sopa de chispas conscientes, una sopa fungica y canibal, bueno, mucho mas complejo que eso pero me gusta el concepto

[@stankrobbitt7151]

Bobby Saps looks like Galadriel's customer service rep in this one.

[@terenzo50]

Really like your dog.

[@quill444]

1) _Really like your dog._ 🦮 - t 5 0 - 2) _Really like your couch._ 🛋 - j q t - 3) _???_ 🕳

[@jqyhlmnp]

@@quill444the lore deepens

[@CarolaSiegel]

Q1 triggered my internal data machine which keeps spouting thoughts now instead of concentrating on mundane every day chores. 🤪 Ah, body just kicked in with hunger, so I´m back to basics. Amusing myself with topics like fear and emotional reactions postponed to the time after a meal. 😁

[@benhudson4014]

A Bo Bo and his daughter,,,,,thankyou friends,,,,you resonate with this Quaker!,,,,,

[@19katsandcounting]

Granddaughter wasn’t afraid of spiders until her mom yelled at me for letting her touch them when she was 2 years old. 😂

[@baraka99]

Doggo steals the show

[@carobertson7208]

Thanks for this video series. I would literally prefer to watch your lectures than to watch 99% of movies. Quick question from Hong Kong : do you think karma/selflessness is close to your position on no free will?

[@mainstay.]

Damn that was depressing...... I thought I was making informed choices concerning who is the best candidate and it comes down to who has the stronger jaw line.

[@bradsillasen1972]

@7:27 Can't belive he's explaining all this to his dog ...must be one smart canine, doesn't even ask questions.

[@dionysusnow]

He was very attentive but kind of dropped the ball at the end.

[@Victor-tw1ls]

Please give a link of the study of predicting conservative views in kids

[@curiousreporter4292]

Good morning sir sapolsky

[@xstensl8823]

a long time ago when i was a child i read the Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

[@leonblythe3194]

I’m already not listening to “after the mutiny” this privateer probably has the credits to not listen to that one either

[@susanjames8134]

What’s the dog’s name? He’s totally loving the tone/vibration of his lesson.

[@andriyandriychuk]

Andrii from Ukraine asks: what is the future of human evolution and biology?

[@nunya321]

do ppl feel better after they've been amputated?

[@---Dana----]

I have heard that male pleasure centers are triggered by selfish behavior and women's pleasure centers are triggered by doing for others. Is this true and is it biological?

[@StopWhining491]

Is there any creature that we don't exploit?

[@mahakala]

who asked the second question?

[@jf-jx4ym]

I keep forgetting to fear. Probably why I am listening and considering to understand human rights crime.

[@jf-jx4ym]

Psychiatry,medicine and modern science involved=sucide. But but its somehow ok. Because socially accepted.

[@Shmooper_Dooper]

Any current humans rights issues you feel strongly about?

[@jf-jx4ym]

​​@@Shmooper_DooperNot right now. Probably For month or so I have irrational fear that someone will hack cars to chase dogs and I am also under an Illusion of this exact thing... That I lose My leg and feel like cutting it off. Its being a disorder to me. I also have a theory that women pulling on dog leashes wrong are source of many animal crimes. Dogs e.g could probably learn to lead cars.

[@Shmooper_Dooper]

@@jf-jx4ym oh my! I hope you have someone like a counselor to confide in, it is good to be able to express yourself to someone rather than “bottle it up” :)

[@mahakala]

who else moved their big toes?

[@nancychace8619]

Lol - mine twitched.

[@bradsillasen1972]

Was gonna ask about clown phobia but I think Apotemnophilia covers weird stuff.

[@uvwuvw-ol3fg]

Chimpanzee groups are ruled by one dominant male, whereas bonobos are ruled by females. Competitions for dominance and mating rights in bonobos shouldn’t be confused with aggression, says Kaplan. “There’s more pointless violence in chimpanzees and humans than in other species like bonobos,” she says.

[@philosophicalmixedmedia]

What seems to supervene innate bias to preference morphology of faces is where a cohort as a generation is situated within the modernisation paradigm. So for example baby boomers in contrast to the alpha generation exposure to computational manipulation of the central nervous system.

[@hotbit7327]

The conclusion is that - the age limit in elections is wrong, 5 y.o. kids would choose the same most of the time!

[@mahakala]

orlando gibbons

[@mezquitic]

[@cedricburkhart3738]

So is he saying that we might respect him more because of his massive beard?

[@klausgartenstiel4586]

the comedy factor is nothing to scoff at.

[@Katzenjammer70]

I thought little Albert was conditioned to fear white things.?

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

boston dynamics

[@scenFor109]

Completely de-register as a voter. Remember that a statement of sovereignty is not secular.

[@IlaughedIcried]

Regarding apotemnophilia: wonderful documentary filmmaker Melody Gilbert made a movie about this condition, called "Whole." I'm not sure how easy it is to find, but it's great, very fascinating, and very respectful towards its subjects. Feel free to Google!