#37: U.S. Election, Pareidolia, Psychological stress | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews

[@howardreed5399]

Watching these with my daughter is a great way to spend some time

[@sugarfoot1956]

Absolutely wonderful episode. Robert Sapolsky is a true sage. 🤩

[@twistedoperator4422]

Even better, a scientist.

[@asbeautifulasasunset]

@ 23:00 minutes, the dog comes in at just the appropriate time. Must have been listening! 😂

[@pollyviolet7878]

Dogs just know things.

[@zoxeme]

he looks so chill

[@nnnnsaakadamanas218]

Listening, but mostly feeling!

[@PhoebeGleeson]

23:00 best stress relief tip in the video is this cameo

[@MahmoodKm2202]

The timing when Saafi entered right when Dr says that line is such a cosmic co incidence

[@Aspetta11]

@@MahmoodKm2202YES

[@carmenmccauley585]

I went looking. Lol! You r correct.

[@ashleyconnor8891]

I love the moment when he said, at 23:00, the best way to relieve stress…and then his dog came in 💕 find a pet to hug, and then fight the power!

[@greatedges]

I have seen my grandmother's face in a full moon since childhood. And she's still there. In fact I have always seen not only faces, but sometimes animals and even inanimate objects in various patterns too. Before this video I thought everyone did. There is so much to learn! Thank you for this wonderful, thought provoking series. Thanks too for the insights about stress.

[@cindyneeper]

Would this be attached to empaths?

[@bridgham1]

That's so lovely!

[@bridgham1]

If this phenomenon troubles you I would strongly advise against taking LSD in an aspen forest... images.app.goo.gl/keX7bmuX8XuY1GEU9

[@lor3999]

All while growing up my favorite hobby was art. I was good at drawing, took it every chance in school. Could always see the faces some with hats & glasses, always showing emotion and arms and silhouettes in anything. Just thought it was all part of that visual, artistic bent. Would be interested if the incidence of this is high in artists.

[@andrewbaker8373]

Collective action is what people of our generation already know. TY both

[@bradsillasen1972]

Great piece as always. Hearing advice on stress from Dr. Sapolsky is drinking from the fountainhead. Thanks for responding to a timely, and surely global, issue. I'm sure many viewers will find comfort in your advice.

[@larryjohnson1249]

Holy Cow!!! It's about time YT algorithm suggested the Doc's channel. Watched many other vids and glad to have found his channel.

[@a.bodhichenevey1601]

Thank you so much for this lecture. After the election I was anxiously anticipating what words of wisdom you would offer us. As always, it is extremely helpful as you are only one of a handful of sources (neurobiologists) I trust. As an old widower living alone--not trusting the social organizations in my neck of the woods, will pose its own problem for me. Keep up the great work.

[@Yoseb-d6g]

Today’s show was great as usual and let’s keep on keeping on :) Thanks for cheering me up after a … well.. you know🙃

[@curiousreporter4292]

Have been waiting eagerly for your take on election results

[@cw5657]

❤

[@tammyscott9664]

Thank you so much…really needed to hear this. 🥺

[@NihilisticRealism]

at the 3 minute mark you seem to be talking baout the 'normalization blindspot' also, the deadpan delivery of the easter island joke was priceless. you have a cold poker face, which makes it 10x funnier

[@videokid521]

I usually get passed by 1 or 2 ambulances a week enroute to the hospital. Last week it was 2-3 daily, and 2 older neighbors had to call the parametrics in the middle of the night. I think stress levels are off the charts, I know mine are.

[@Ellier215]

My family member who is fairly young went to ER for high blood pressure yesterday. It's stress. A shit ton of stress.

[@poi4ever121]

Dear Dr. Sapolsky, you are wonderful. Your books, the claases online and now this so informative program. I could never be offended by you. 😊😊

[@hotbit7327]

'Being offended' is an internal process/reaction, nobody can offend you. One person is offended by say a woman in a short skirt, another person is not. It's not her fault, but expectations of the other people that make them feel offended or not.

[@poi4ever121]

@hotbit7327 I accept that and amend it to I won't be offended.

[@cindyscott8470]

Always grateful for Father Offspring Interviews and the energy put into sharing good info with us !

[@Drpriyaparmar]

Thank you Sapolsky tribe. I subscribe and feel relieved and grateful to be a part of your group. ❤😅

[@treehuggr849]

I take my frustration out on the dishes. If there isn't any dishes in the sink, I will find dishes to wash. It's funny and strange.

[@KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

Thanks you two, once again for a great episode! The second question's discussion should help a lot of people. Thanks so much!

[@mihaelateleptean5220]

Thank you again. I'm enjoying so much every single video of yours.❤

[@CaraBeanComics]

Thanks for these chats. They mean so much to me.

[@curiousreporter4292]

Good morning sir Sapolsky Shahid from India

[@genxjason]

Every freaking video my mind melts a little more. And its legal!

[@singing-sands]

Twenty-three minutes of knowledge!

[@alXandrell77]

So I’m not crazy; this beard is smiling! ty ;-)

[@kellyberry4173]

Thank you! Well done!!

[@lisaillahee1707]

Your sweet dog knows best❤

[@neonchamber]

If i could bottle this channel, i’d be rich. Thank you once more

[@dianamichele5525]

Thank you.

[@Thatsbannanas-d8c]

Wow. You nailed it, sir. Thank you. I am at peace now.

[@Horibonda]

I’m very unwell from election. I’m Canadian… don’t know how to deal with the collapse of society

[@cindyneeper]

I am in Deep Red rural Tennessee. I am so unwell, I called my doctor for my mental health. This past weekend was dicey to me.

[@Horibonda]

@ oh dear….. I can relate. Thinking of calling mine. It’s terrible… I’m so scared for us all…the whole world.

[@JohnMcDermott-t6l]

Thanks

[@nsbd90now]

I can definitely have the thing where in relative silence it is like I hear a music playing somewhere.

[@jackf6622]

EASILY the most interesting person I've listened to

[@Awesomes007]

This is great, thanks Doc. Love your work and I'll always be wary of baboons.

[@ronalddepesa6221]

Love this

[@christinley5213]

This was verry helpful thank you!!:) im so happy you do this! Iv always wanted more lectures from you.. your the best at it!:)

[@jeremymr]

7:49 - Robert Sapolsky is a fan of Cars (2006) confirmed. By the way, my sister recently surprised my 2-year-old nephew with a new Cars-themed bed and his reaction was amazing haha "CARS BED! CARS BED! CAAARS BED!"

[@tarkovych]

Thank you!❤

[@timmccully3605]

" A SCHOLAR MADE IS A SOLDIER RUINED"! How our paths twist and bend! And we are just along for the ride. All I have done is show up! 😊

[@lizlemon9632]

Science and philosophy…good mix.

[@heltunikt]

Loved this. Thank you!

[@DrakeStardragon]

Join the Resistance!

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

Resistance to what?

[@dendritibus]

​@@MrJoeBobSmithof course to fascism, as Trump is a fascist.

[@global-village-idiot]

The Dems are no less fascistic when it comes to actual govt actions, when you filter out all the smoke and mirrors and look at what they actually do while they are in power - both domestically and internationally. The carpet bombing in the ME continues, for example, and will continue once Trump is president. Trump is just the populist clown fascist face of the same system, he's not even a 'traditional' Republican, he just says the quiet parts out loud one too many times and makes the US establishment look bad... although senile 'sleepy' Biden has since more than outdone him on that count - quite possibly the most embarrassing president to have ever been in office. Your stress levels and sense of despair will be greatly reduced if you stop falling for the MSM generated narrative of the two party circus and instead see it for what it really is - two cheeks from the same billionaire bribed, corrupt, compromised, war obsessed backside. No amount of liberal window dressing should obscure this fact. The sooner enough people realise, the sooner real change will start happening.

[@global-village-idiot]

The Dems are no less fascistic when it comes to actual govt policy, when you filter out all the smoke and mirrors and look at why they actually do - both domestically and internationally. The carpet b@mbing in the ME continues, for example, and will continue once Trump is president. Trump is just the populist clown fascist face of the same system, he's not even a traditional Republican, he just says the quiet parts out loud one too many times and makes the US establishment look bad... although senile 'sleepy' Biden has since more than outdone him on that count - quite possibly the most embarrassing president to have ever been in office. Your stress levels and sense of despair will be greatly reduced if you stop falling for the MSM generated narrative of the two party circus and instead see it for what it really is - two cheeks from the same billionaire bribed, corrupt, compromised, war obsessed backside. No amount of liberal window dressing should obscure this fact. The sooner enough people realise, the sooner real change will start happening.

[@timparker4627]

​@@dendritibusYou people enforced a covid lockdown for years which was pure fascism. You also suppress Free speech every chance you get. There are no bigger fascists then professors in the University administrators.

[@franfranks7738]

Whew... Thanks for posting this and putting my mind at ease. Was worried there was something seriously amiss in my brain, as I keep seeing Donald Trumps face in pretty much every pile of dog shit I see on the street.

[@Lobishomem]

You too?

[@librulcunspirisy]

Thanks 👍

[@texasbounce]

10:13 Your assumption is correct Dr Sapolsky

[@Bob-v3g4m]

Nope.

[@lexiek3848]

Yupp

[@quicknumbercrunch8691]

Another brilliant and kind talk. Thank you. Good advice regarding recent stress. My grandparents died in the camps and I grew up in Texas, so I lived with Neo-Nazis (most Texans were not that bad, many were good people, but many were hate filled, possibly the majority) so seeing the return and accepting that death could be imminent is sobering. After group action, nihilism is a good direction to go in. Not having free will means that we are organized atoms defying entropy for eighty years, who in all cases will then be moved apart. Also, and feel free to disagree, human overpopulation is destroying the biosphere at an alarming rate, so it was inevitable that death would rain down on humankind. Don't have kids and it will hurt less. I have a thirty year old, but thankfully no grandkids, yet. Enjoy what you can of the finale rack.

[@hailynewma9122]

as long as the faces don‘t talk it should be ok 😊

[@itaspera]

ha ha!

[@Bob-v3g4m]

4:30 surely it could be argued that after giving birth, the mother is in a heightened state of alertness of danger, threats to the child, to herself. So, her mind is looking to see, but in overdrive.

[@audreyburch6029]

There's an album, by Entomed, called Left Hand Path. The album cover has, I think, intentional pareidolia-inducing imagery.

[@Authentistic-ism]

I have audio pareidolia with the sound of appliances (compressors, mostly the fridge and air conditioner together) sometimes sounding like familiar music coming from the neighbors or muffled just enough that I can't confirm the lyrics, but the melody is there. I've often wondered why I kept hearing the same song with no end for far longer than the song actually is, and stopped sounding real once I got my focus on the real sounds in the room.

[@ADude-f3z]

I have a habit of speaking to myself, and I looked into studies concerning the frequency of that behavior in others…. Apparently, the behavior is common among humans who are frequently misunderstood for whatever reason, an extension of our need for social engagement. Perhaps useful as a tool to confirm biases we develop? That being the case, it is often said that “It takes a community to raise a child”. Perhaps the prevalence of pareidolia in women is more of a seeking assistance behavior, rather than threat identification? Just a thought.

[@NancyLebovitz]

I seem to be involved in a number of disorganizations. I hope it helps.

[@A3Kr0n]

What's the psychology behind not voting because a vote either way means terrific harm on an out group?

[@tcizzi]

Great question. I think it means you're trying to interpret reality exactly as it is, even if it means the result is uncomfortable or unclear, and I'm there with you. Just my opinion tho.

[@sugarfoot1956]

Yup

[@toddwasson3355]

This: "Social support is probably the most powerful variable in there. If you could maximize any of those, social support is the most protective. That said where is the caveat coming in there? Sometimes we have a lot of trouble telling the difference between someone who we think of as an intimate, who when the going gets tough turns out just to have been an acquaintance, and you don't get true friendship out of encountering somebody Friday night in a club. You don't get to, you know usually it takes time, it takes patience, it takes compromise, all that sort of stuff, and very often if you have mistaken real social support and intimacy when it's actually just an acquaintance, when they turn out to be just an acquaintance, that's often more unsettling and more stressful, more pulling out the rug from underneath your feet than if you didn't have that in the first place." That's my entire life right there.

[@stevenlaube7535]

habituation is memory ,habituation is the construction and reinforcement of action ,i.e .proposed question by autonomic time related pathways and senses " do i need to wash my self " yes,no check and initiate a set of habituated parameters of cleanses if all pass 'no' exit function ", if a level fail check again if fail again ,yes , start habituated required cleanness activities , and so it go behind the wall ,every action & reaction checked with sets of habituated parameters and requirements that's in the learning process by S.S Colvin

[@andretasse1607]

2:05 What? ! ? Those statues were never meant to look like faces? Pareidolia: seeing faces where there are none. OK: the statues are not actual faces. But representations? How does 'art' fit in that definition? Is it some sort of a 'layer', a 'filter", an 'exception'? I guess I must watch the rest of this already fascinating episode to find out!

[@tracy9610]

He was joking. They’re totally faces.

[@Oneiric_Benevolence]

​@@tracy9610No you are seeing things. Those are rocks.

[@dacisky]

What about face blindness. I recall Oliver Sacks discussing this.

[@McGloin349]

I feel so depressed and am in such despair following the election. I feel like all is lost. I love you guys and thank you for this video.

[@mattblah3773]

I agree, and you’re definitely not alone. Over 60 million U.S. citizens share the same feelings, not to mention billions worldwide. I’m still in shock myself that nearly 70 million people chose chaos.

[@Authentistic-ism]

Is this pareidolia maybe related to Stanislas Dehaene's theory about the Visual Wordform Area in the brain? I think he said it's in the fusiform gyrus. Where is that relative to fusiform cortex? Thanks!

[@nnnnsaakadamanas218]

i loooove car faces. it's almost as though car manufacturers have started more designing their cars to resemble faces too- ever since Cars (the movie)

[@noone-t7b]

There's something amiss when the levels of trust are so low in and between the parties. Personally I think they are polarised due to sickness in society, that much seems obvious but it's not obvious the cause, hence people picking various groups so as to belong to a group. But it's the lack of responsibility, or could say selfishness that permeates that's the problem I say, you are it, so to speak but is it the voice of the devil or the lord (god not landowner). Looking forward to the next episode 🙈🙉🙊.

[@grinfacelaxu]

I don't understand how I feel the dog behind him was listening to his talks and was sincere or curious not to disturb. Is this just my imagination or do dog know what is going over and also knows how he/she shall behave as most humans behave on spiritual talks whether they understand or not (or interested or not)?

[@infiniteworfare5089]

i mean grin, i view it immoral to domesticate dogs as we dont know what goes on in their brains. they could be suffering physiologically and we wouldnt even know it. they can undergo natural selection in their natural habitats to prevent health issues.

[@jamiegallier2106]

❤❤❤❤

[@fatosshehu9838]

cool

[@devonnorris1586]

The big Sapolsky energy from this video hit me like a blow dart full of epinephrine hits a baboon or something of that sort 🧐

[@JohnGlen502]

Scarecrows work maybe birds are similar. Right now there is added stress from people wanting to tear down our institutions.

[@susananderson1209]

😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@PhillipBell]

I don't know if this is pareidolia, but Dr. Sapolsky looks like Robert Plant to me.

[@nsbd90now]

And yet... there's no Communication Breakdown here! 😛

[@9reyling]

Cookie dough ice cream consumed liberally while watching escapist movies, petting dogs and chatting and singing with parrots. And yes, both my long-time friend and my mother saw faces everywhere in the early phases of Parkinson’s. Question: what, if any, brain differences exist among people who’ve seen UFOs and machine elves?

[@GildedImage]

I have macular degeneration, and my brain keeps making visual mistakes, often figures in the bushes. Seems related.

[@darkorion69]

Human pattern recognition. It appears to be an evolutionary adaptation looking for strangers 'the other' to protect the tribe

[@jimwilliams3816]

Okay, the whole section on predictability and control describes, from my experience and observations, the lived struggles of many many autistic people. My question then is, given that these are universal phenomena, why are the struggles apparently more pronounced for autistic people? And the other question, regarding social support: I can see how collective action might activate the brain in good ways. But given thar, as you have pointed out previously, humans are moderately tribal primates who are incredibly easy to maneuver into “othering” those perceived as not of their tribe, how do people manage the positive versions of this (as per your military example, “these people are your brothers, whom you would do anything for”) versus the dark half (“these people are your enemy, whom it is okay to kill”). Given that one of the things that has kept a certain person in the public eye is that he triggers both sets of emotions - clearly in his supporters, but in also in many ways in his opponents, how do we navigate this? Applying the stress management principles is obviously part of it, but how do we create a sense of collective action which will of necessity involve resistance, without sliding further into anger at and feminization of other tribes? We haven’t done that well so far.

[@jimwilliams3816]

Demonization not feminization. Autocorrect has gone to hell, and not just for me. Not sure why. Alas I can’t edit on my phone.

[@christopherlipowski397]

Is this like stimulus overload?

[@Furyan5theLoneWolf]

Here's a question for you guys. I've met many people who think they are intelligent, but they aren't. How do I know I'm not one of them?

[@nibas4920]

Submit questions using the link in the video description

[@chuckheppner4384]

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know. One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment. Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence. A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat. The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively. Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism. Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built. Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be. Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood. It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings. However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings. Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. We receive love - from our children as well as others - not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love. Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not. Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity. No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community. Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face. Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety. Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant. When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways. They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean. When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. Vanity and narcissism - the compulsive need to be admired and praised - undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own. Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own. The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience. Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us with a serious danger, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. Rollo May "Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need. Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. When people are not accepting toward themselves they are often obsessed with acceptance by others. It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself. There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness. It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure. If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them." Nathaniel Branden "I think con man is the usual term. When somebody comes on television to tell a lot of needy people that God will send them to heaven if they send him $200, if that's not downright sociopathic, it's close. Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win. Some parts of the population are starting to realize that character is extremely important and that it cannot be measured by the things we like to measure it by: the tabloids and so forth. Character is crucially important to a leader, to be a moral leader, and we'd better make it primary on our list or we're going to keep getting more of the same." Martha Stout "Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison. A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience. Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them. Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride." Robert D. Hare

[@xstensl8823]

Trump is talking about controlling the curriculum of the Universities through accreditation. i hope you can to continue to question free will in your class at Stanford Dr.?

[@riverlevity]

😵You just inserted another possible stressor into my next four years!

[@infiniteworfare5089]

trumps actions are done under the lack of free will.

[@emiliabeckers]

What would your advice be for transgender people in the US (and the UK) for the coming years: When you're trapped in a system where media and the government all work to isolate and reduce social support. How do you counter such a movement stress-wise?

[@dr.j3685]

Is she his daughter?

[@infiniteworfare5089]

yes

[@sawqs94]

Why is this thing for free?

[@Harabanar]

Is William Shakespeares Hamlet the ultimate archetypal primate history?

[@timparker4627]

I thought the election of Trump was great. I am sick of the Left. I am sick of the bloated bureaucracy. And I am sick of the fascist politics of academia.

[@tennisfameguy]

So, you’re sick. We get it.

[@mattblah3773]

I think you're after the Joe Rogan podcast

[@synupps877]

A lot of people thought it was okay to vote for the attempted election thief.

[@davidthompson797]

Eh?? was that a joke about Easter Island?

[@vsevolodsemenov6786]

I see faces 😀

[@MechasCalvo]

The European Union is trying to keep with this/another one collective stress.

[@cht2162]

The face of Jesus on a piece of toast. Religious iconography.

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

I dont think i could refute the no free will argument, and i might be a believer, but some of dr sopolsky's suggestions for societal reforms are kinda... ugh not plausible and possibly destructive. So, although the no free will argument is basically water tight (how i feel about it now), some of the other suggestions based off it could be debated in a hard way. But... What's going to happen is going to happen. It was destiny that led me to make this comment after all

[@HereForToday42]

😂

[@infiniteworfare5089]

if you are selectively bred to believe in god, you CANNOT go against this trait of breeding. you must believe in god and its very unlikely that you wont. this can apply to alot of other traits too. this just makes it clear that we dont have free will

[@VCE4]

Robert indeed looks stressful Glad he, they, we - are not alone

[@TheIAMINU]

Hilarious , christians played stairway to heaven backward , because the didn't want to know what it put forward ....

[@user-ch4mm7dy3g]

Meh academics dont ecen try to appear non partisan anymore, such a letdown.

[@nibas4920]

They never were and this is his channel with his own opinions. He’s not bound to his role of a university professor here.

[@chriscrosbymusic]

Nothing wrong with learning how to process emotions in a healthy way. As opposed to say, buying flags and bumper stickers insulting the President generally freaking everyone out for four years.

[@evgeniadalton5795]

10:40. Unsubscribed.

[@infiniteworfare5089]

sir, we are overpopulated. we cant just let every sperm live and become human. theres not infinite amount of space on earth and we need to prevent the biodiversity of earth from being destroyed while helping reduce animal habitat destruction.

[@mwflanagan1]

‘Bye

[@rodriguezelfeliz4623]

Hahaha you're really going to get mad about that? That's a bit fragile, don't you think?

[@Bob-v3g4m]

10:10 What a daft statement, how limited does he assume the listeners to be? The problem with politics is one of very limited choice, it is always the lesser of two evils... and yet, people keep voting and expecting something different rather than apply a bit of common sense and say "no more, we demand another way free of idiot politics and warring."

[@daryab9416]

You can think the way you mentioned and still be bewildered by the election results. I'm like that

[@tracy9610]

A Venn diagram of Sapolsky students and Trump voters: 🟢🔵

[@MrJoeBobSmith]

Lmao, at an ultra left California University there will be no surprises

[@Oneiric_Benevolence]

🟢 ∩ 🔵 = ∅

[@YFitnessMan]

It's called a trifecta I think!