#5: Freud, aggression, dopamine | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews

[@claudia.k.g.1271]

Why is there no Nobel Prize for Neuroscience? Prof. Sapolsky should receive one!

[@andriyandriychuk]

For what scientific breakthrough exactly?

[@cht2162]

@@andriyandriychuk 🙈🙈🙈🙉🙉🙉🙊🙊🙊🙊

[@kellyberry4173]

​@@andriyandriychuk Have you read "Behave" and "Determined"???

[@kellyberry4173]

Claudia, Robert did receive the MacArthur Fellowship,or "Genius Grant" from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur- Given to people considered geniuses

[@kellyberry4173]

Among other things...hes a academic. And I have loved him for years- seen all his classes online, from him teaching at Stanford. Love his books! To me, he's a joy!

[@doglabdogtraining-gus.8873]

as a dog trainer and behaviorist that's has applied lots of the DR Robert Sapolsky's free lectures from Stanford I'm deeply great full for all the knowledge I got that helped many owner and dogs have a better relationships and a better quality of life. I'm deeply touched by seeing he is also a dog lover, Robert you have changed my life in ways you'll never know and changed the life of many dogs in shelters waiting for euthanasia that I was able to help thanks to your classes. The world has shifted since you became part of it for the better, Thank you. Gus.

[@klausgartenstiel4586]

every time i watch one of these videos, my serotonin levels go up the wazoo.

[@patriziasplace2256]

Lovely to meet the gorgeous Sapolsky canine also 😊

[@VCE4]

Raising my dopamine levels towards next episode

[@andriyandriychuk]

Thank you Offspring! Now we have Robert regular updates

[@zahariachirica5466]

I am fully in trance whenever I am listening to Robert Sapolsky especially now when he is interviewed by his wonderful and lucky daughter😍

[@misterbrickest]

Robert Sapolsky is a huge inspiration to me. Although we don't share a common background, I do relate very much with his insights in neuroscience. I'm 35 and have been reading about pharmacology and neuroscience since I was a teenager, and I am thinking of going to get a bachelors in Neuroscience. I would be a big step, as I spent the majority of the last two decade addicted to heroin. I have almost four years clean now, and every time I think about the direction for my future, pursuing neuroscience is the thing that "feels" like a calling to me. Keep up the videos! I'm subbing right now.

[@isabt4]

That is a huge accomplishment! Well done! Heroin is the hardest addiction! Fortunately I never tried heroin, but I have let go of several addictions , alcohol and stimulants, so I know the hellish struggle. Go for your studies! Sounds like a great plan 😀

[@yaongingyfmm1571]

Congrats on managing to kick such a heavy addiction! You should read Never Enough by Judith Grisel, a former addict turned neuroscientist, maybe you can glean some insight from it.

[@misterbrickest]

@yaongingyfmm1571 thanks, I'll totally read that. I have been trying to find someone with similar circumstances and goals to myself.

[@yaongingyfmm1571]

​@@misterbrickest My pleasure! It will surely be worth your time!

[@geirvassli]

Well done and congratulations. You can do it. You will do it.

[@isabt4]

I appreciate both of you taking the time to do this! It’s a luxury to hear you! Thank you so much! ❤

[@jamesppesch]

I am excited and in attendance.

[@eduardoneurociencias]

Thx Uncle Sapols

[@NikhilSharma-nick]

cool interview! I love how the doggo is also into it ❤

[@MikeBarnes-ce8lp]

Thank u Prof Sapolsky. Your lectures and online content are enriching my life in so many positive ways ❤

[@andersestes]

Love theese. The world needs more father ofspring

[@jamiegallier2106]

Love these interviews ❤

[@meysamgholipour67]

great❤

[@MDMB53]

Bang on the money, thanks. I would add just one comment ~ if you want to know about Dopamine, ask/observe someone with Parkinson's Disease. Reading your books and listening to you talk about this has been a great help to my understanding/coming to terms with my own PD diagnosis (some ten years ago), so again: Thankyou!

[@Backyard.Archery]

Absolutely love these… thank you!

[@valerieserval4731]

merci

[@pandachance1]

Please keep these coming!!!❤❤❤

[@eosorakas5668]

Im loving these videos! Keep it up 🙏🙌🙌🇨🇾

[@domportera]

went searching for Dr Sapolsky, vividly remembering his famous lecture series i watched religiously 5 yeads ago. so glad he has a youtube channel now :')

[@a.bodhichenevey1601]

Outstanding Q&A. I always learn something new here! Thank you!

[@spacewad8745]

can these be 2 hrs long please?

[@Phawnreath]

Right??

[@drhyshek]

Very enlightening! Thank you!

[@bobdillaber1195]

Another good session!

[@VaughanMcCue]

The good doctor reminds me of Australia's greatly loved, resident leprachaun, Costa Georgiadis

[@kathrinm2420]

I love this!!!

[@kavorka8855]

This episode should be watched by everyone, one of the most enlightening q&a I've ever watched ❤

[@midnightchurningspriteshaq8533]

Fascinating conversation, great content, easy to understand, and thought provoking.

[@johnny6868]

Fantastic series... keep it going! ❤

[@nancychace8619]

Respectfully, North American Indian hunter gatherers warred each other, apparently frequently. Maybe Africa was different? Just discussing. Good chat - thanks for sharing. Hope Sweden stays peaceful 🙂🕊 Hope things go well for you ~

[@flamephlegm]

I love this series.

[@MaryM-w1k]

Excellent video. Thank you!

[@eniggma9353]

In college BA psych they told everyone Freud was crazy but also inspired a lot of people. Non of his stuff should be taken seriously but at least he gave way to the therapy model, if i am not mistaken. He was basically a stepping stone.

[@flamephlegm]

Yeah the idea of the unconscious or that there was more to our mind than what we were conscious of was big at the time. I've heard Jungians try to say, "Well things have come full circle now, and we're mostly concerned with the unconscious." and sure, yeah, whatever, but it's not like any real validation of Freud writ large. His model presents an enduring set of metaphors that bubble up in the arts and criticism/analysis but it seems to get less and less every year.

[@stoneneils]

No, he's 100% right about everything...however fortunately for most of you including Robert..it will all remain neatly repressed. Some of us unlucky people were born to predators and thus did not repress anything from the day we were born. I remember it all..the oral stage..anal stage..genital stage..the feelings towards my mother..my hatred by father...the castration threat..internalizing the other...the mirror stage of lachan...I remember everything except the hospital because my father started abusing me day one when I got home. Freud did what Robert and no other has ever done..folllow hundreds of children from birth into early adulthoood and observed. In europe where they are not sexually repressed he is still respected but here we live in a christiian puritan mindset. Hey, they don't even offer therapy anymore let alone psychoanalysis..just pills, so there ya go..they did away with ALL psychology lol..its all psychiatry now.

[@MrRobhorn]

I love these videos, Interesting people, educational and fun, we can’t ask for anything better. thank you both…

[@LaboriousCretin]

Another good video. Tribalism, social wars, biases from constructs, and in a way. The birth of primitive warfare. Game theory of a type. Socio-biochemical imprinting. Predictive analytics and modeling. Keep up the good work

[@lorenam8028]

November is definitely looning...

[@TheBaconWizard]

Offspring Sapolsky, I hope you realise and are ok that Dr Sapolsky is EVERYONE'S dad now. We have claimed him. Regards, the internet.

[@fabianamatano2512]

Hi from Brazil. What a cute dog ❤ . Question: on your updated lecture on Depression, Prof Sapolsky explains that only 1/3 of people being treated, on drugs, get decent results for the health. Could you kindly share more details pls? Is there a specific paper I should reach on Pubmed...? Or books...? I 'm a therapist myself with a background in Neuroscience; I desperately need to pore over that. Thanks ❤

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

I understand the cons of the agricultural revolution, but do you think technology or civilization would advance without the agriculture? It seems to be the catalyst that accelerated this whole human experiment. I would be sad to not be able to listen to Robert Sapolsky on my computer or read his books!

[@johnschorr9988]

Love your series! Question for the offspring. I am presently a de-converting Christian after being introduced to your dad via promotion of his book Determined that I saw on my newspage. That led me down a KZbin rabbit hole of your dad, Sam Harris, Dawkins, Denning, Ehrtman, Alex O'Conner, etc. And this has just been in the last 6 months or so! I have read a handful of books already by the aforementioned, as well. I recently started your dad's book Behave (a bit over my head, I must say, but that's ok) and his book Determined is on order. But I was wondering...were you raised as an athiest or did your dad and "mommy" let you come to conlusions on your own regarding faith and spirituality, and do you yourself have friends that are theists? I should add, to be clear that my look into my Christian beliefs "had" to be explored because of your father's persuasive, educated arguments for free will. For I reasoned that could I not make a "decision" to believe on Christ of my own free will, then how and why woud I be "saved" (born again)? Thanks, John from Ohio

[@carmenmccauley585]

Very cool!

[@kassiefitzgerald9852]

I wish Sapolsky would write a book from the bucket perspective on how to behave to help others react to situations the best way possible, e.g., offer those judges a snack. More real world implementation that could snow ball - how to make more ‘us’ less ‘them’. How those of us lucky enough to have been exposed to best spread the message or at least sneak parts of it to others in baby steps.

[@theofficialness578]

I have a sense that I think the issue is the ego, would anyone at this point in time accept or practice his suggestions in a real impactful way? I have a sense this truth is too big of a blow for most people no matter how much evidence is put forth. Of course I also have a sense about the importance of the ones it can affect.

[@tracy9610]

Hi Safi 🧡

[@livthedream5885]

“…the nursing home of our choice. 😂😭

[@curiousreporter4292]

Hi sir Sapolsky Shahid from India

[@m0thdm]

Sapolsky doesn't know it..... but he's been my professor for the last 10 years

[@MTVBrat]

I'd like to remain anonymous please. Literally, HOW do you argue with an idiot and not be dragged down and beaten by their experience? I get annoyed watching some interviewers with you and I'm wondering HOW you keep your decorum during some of these shows and in these instances. I've also seen some really conducive interviews where the host is... not delusional, and I've really enjoyed them. I could use some neuro pointers on how to exhibit more (or even SOME) tact when dealing with subtle and flagrant passor-aggressors. Perhaps you could paraphrase that if you decide to QnA. This is not relevant to the discussion, but I wonder if offspring share-sapolsky would tell us a little bit about her field (if she has one?) and would enjoy a personal anecdote about growing up with those two if you're willing to share... I want to add sapolsky 😅

[@christinley5213]

Hahahah oh god froid lol!! Thats what i say!! Thank you both for this.. im hungry for knowledge and you both always deliver!

[@michaelfercik3691]

Can we become "a nice one" ?

[@theofficialness578]

Question: Did you observe any evidence of antisocial personalities (or behaviors outside of a groups norm) in any of the other primates you studied?

[@CarlMosk]

What are your thoughts on the demographic transition? On average - in societies moving from high fertility to low fertility, from relatively low life expectancy - should we see any important changes in brain and hormone activity? What about the logic of spreading your individual genes?

[@iAmEhead]

Did humans "invent" unequal distribution, or was it that just everybody in the tribe wanted a spear made by that guy/gal that is the best spear maker in the village (or the best basket maker, or best hut "engineer"), and so they all traded their stuff with him/her till they ended up with more stuff than everybody else? Of course, it's certainly the case that certain people managed to convince everyone else of their magical skills (appeasing the Gods, bringing the rain, or whatnot), and that this entitled them to more, but... I'm thinking a certain amount of unequal distribution would have occurred even without these less scrupulous types, based just on genuine skill and popularity.

[@rustamslobodskoy9065]

Good Day, I would like to know what a neurotransmitter is most important in you studies besides dopamine which you've emphasized in your answers.Thanks. Azerbaijan,Baku.

[@donaldsikorski8907]

Even his dog is cerebral.

[@ehsanakbari3185]

Dr. Sapolsky, are you familiar with David Wengrow's and David Graeber's book "The Dawn of Everything." They make a very compelling case against the idea that farming created things like rigid hierarchies, organized violence, etc. Their thesis is that humans have always organized themselves in all kinds of ways. They present archeological evidence of authoritarian hunter-gatherers, and egalitarian farming societies, and many variations. Their thesis flies in face of a simplified and conventional evolutionary modal of human development. I wonder what you’d make of that?

[@billeib427]

Possessions, possessors, stuff, things.

[@masterfoggy88]

You need to go deeper on agriculture and social status that’s interesting 🧐

[@mahakala]

the dog wanna sapoksly with mr sapolsky but waiting patiently :)

[@domportera]

this man just did a marx-esque material analysis on aggression and it was fucking sick

[@briseboy]

Groucho, excuse me, Karl, espoused violent means of response to ills he regarded as occurring to a social group he calls "workers, proletariat" Sapolsky doe no such thing You are in Grave Error.

[@domportera]

@@briseboy all it would have taken is a google search and you'd have quickly found what I mean and saved yourself some typing

[@PatrickOHara-y3d]

French Marshall Bernadotte became the King of Sweden. His descendants reign to this day

[@bradsillasen1972]

What neurotransmitter is about the reinforcing pleasure once dopamine drives one to achieve and reward is experienced?

[@smkh2890]

At 11:15 does 'Djinn' really mean 'sorcerer' in Swahili ? That is quite different from the original Arabic meaning, where Djinn are other creatures that inhabit the Earth alongside us humans.

[@michaelfercik3691]

Man all mighty, I'm confused with an atheist using "Oh God" as a phase. Is it meant to be demogeratory or meant to be praising ? I like the Swedish type of live and let live mentality, which is desperately needed in the world today and tomorrow. From one old hippie to another, peace . nuff said

[@theofficialness578]

I have a sense that I think, phrases such as “Oh God” are embedded in the mind especially if one was raised by religious people. The phrase more often than not isn’t in reference to “God” as a being. It’s a way of saying “really” or “Let me think”.

[@augustwest-e8l]

demogeratory? is that like derogatory but somehow in a demonic way?

[@PeredurJenkins]

Comment for the algorithm

[@batchint]

just to add to the mix.. agriculture… why we cook.. and all of those things about digestion… quite an import…

[@fernandopineda5505]

Holaa!!

[@thomasesau2376]

Chatham Island 500 miles east of New Zealand, developed non-aggressive culture. It ended poorly.

[@humanbridges]

Question: Does Robert feel somewhat resigned that his insights into human behavior will not find purchase at the scale he knows they belong at? If so, he’s wrong, just needs to rethink the path to get there and be open to strangers that are out of pattern

[@michaelfercik3691]

Warfare has mostly been fought over by my God is better than your God. I really would like Robert Sapolsky opinion on all the facts involved in our religious warring in the world. Stay safe and healthy while having a good day.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Fire stick farming, looks like pretty sophisticated hunting and gathering? Just as territorial as any situation in which population dynamics featured, which is confined to this Universe of course, so it would seem that a unity-connection self-defines lying as untruthing, much like when you tell kids "don't do that", that is what they do, sooner or later. But controversy sells more books, happy to help, of my own free will too, of course.

[@gofai274]

since 17 i cannot feel any pleasure and i am more and more emotionally flat, feel like robot...

[@bobdillaber1195]

I wonder if there is something that you don't want to feel and that is keeping you from being aware of feeling anything. Just a thought I had anyway.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Defintely talk to a doctor + psychiatrist to see if there's a imbalance in the brain. Also, 17 is a very crazy age - hormones raging, limbic system out of control, and prefrontal cortex that is going through a growth spurt. Being a teenager is hard, but it gets better. Hang in there!

[@theofficialness578]

I had a similar experience in my early life years. I’m 27 now, no matter how many psychiatrist i’ve seen and medications I’ve been put on, the friends and family that preach to me otherwise. I simply don’t see the “gift” the “the beauty” that so many apparently see. I noticed I do have a slew of adverse emotions such as anger for the fact I exist. There is no blame to give my parents, I just rather have never existed. It’s my strongest desire. So my question, are you feeling no emotion at all including the adverse ones?

[@gofai274]

@@theofficialness578 It was a lot of dynamic for me. I didn't feel pleasure last 7 years basically at all, even if i did rarely it was like under 10 000 bricks of wall. And 1/10 000 before. I beaten grandmasters in sc2 when my hands are big, all my mice have friction after 14 days and i have RSI and couldn't feel anything. SImilarly like in autism i cannot tell difference between me and others: 160IQ told me what i already knew - that i am too wise: i observe myself externally that also plays part... I am sublime one, i sometimes could feel love and beauty and pleasure but not in my 1st person perspective... Now i just hit limit on suffering, i was super flat depressed 99,999% times last 3 years, so not 100% time falt consitently but last like 7 years even if i feel something: it is like under 10000+ bricks that i wouldn't even call it real emotions. I am so complicated it is so dynamic hard to explain, but 99% times i am just flat (hit limit on suffering); i suffered so much i even started enjoy it sometimes even it caused me huge psychological distress as how unbearable my pain was... I am hyper aware of life and everything around me i have overexcitabilities. "“gift” the “the beauty” that so many apparently see." You are just aware how life is it sucks. Same "desire not to be born" you can google this on youtube, i don't see point in anything since free will is illusion, there is no moral significance to my actions, we are all just animals, love is inauthentic. It is all so ugly, ppl only hurt each other all the time, you have to eat other creatures just to stay alive: it is all sadistic, i cannot wait to die.....

[@jamesppesch]

I hope one day my mini me finds me interesting in the least.

[@m.dgaius6430]

Correction: humans did not 'invent' unequal distribution of surplus.

[@BeeBop1029]

About warlike fighting, a related aspect… I think humans have more or less always been led by ruthless cruel leaders who demanded their rings kissed. Why? A LOT of people have a need to worship someone/something. Natural selection.

[@Sampoochy]

The Freud analogy only doesn’t make sense because the questioner is arbitrarily picking two parts of the brain to correspond to two psychological structures and then Robert creates a fake scenario where he thinks he must use only the frontal cortex to explain behavior because of how the question only brought up the id and amygdala and the superego and frontal cortex. However, Robert’s example perfectly illustrates Freud’s third concept of the ego, which works in the background to manage desires and imperatives from the id and superego. So Robert really didn’t prove anything except to indirectly point out the questioner knows very little about psychoanalysis. Freud’s theory maintains the id, superego and ego. Never just id and superego. This is disappointing from Robert. If you want you could try correlating the ego with the default mode network and then do your lying scenario again. But really, assigning psychological/personality structures to brain regions is completely pointless in my opinion. However, that’s not everyone’s opinion; Check out Mark Solms and Neuropsychoanalysis. Finally, Freud was a neurologist. Of course he wasn’t a neuroscientist, that wasn’t really a distinct discipline until the mid 20th century. Come on Rob, you can do better to take down Freud. This is just lazy like most everyone else who talks about psychoanalysis.

[@stoneneils]

Unfortunately one has to be extremely traumatize in adulthood..eventually it strikes you in all humilation..Freud was right. Nobody wants to admit or remember the anal stage..or sexual feelings towards mother or father as infants, etc. However most people don't remember back to their days in the crib...it takes an extremely traumatizing life where nothing get permanently repressed. I can attest Freud as sick and strange as his theories are..was right. Most people are lucky enough they'll never know it, its easier to laugh it off.

[@meysamgholipour67]

to me, ur dad is like shams to molana

[@jarrodanderson2124]

Where does shame come from?

[@livthedream5885]

“…the nursing home of our choice. 😂😭