Conscious Evolution: Is Society an Organism? - Professor David Sloan Wilson

[@lukELfin]

Why is there not more David Sloan Wilson available on KZbin and partiularly more good quality video. His work should be far more wodely recognised.

[@enriquemartinez5647]

This should be in all high school and university studies programs. I will join pro social. I salute you from México. We need to study and implement this so much. Thanks again for the channel and this content.

[@craigswanson8026]

Brilliant presentation! Thank you both very much.

[@patricelauverjon3177]

Society can be compared with an organisms with a mind. Generally speaking science puts logistics first and considers, if not disturbing, Religion or Spirituality in a second stage. Faith prioritises belief and analysis takes place in second place. The first appreciates and values skill and the accumulation of pragmatic knowledge, when the second values narratives and seek experiences going along with and sustaining the beliefs. The approach we have to life has a strong impact on concepts and human interactions: faced with the same type of knowledge the two react differently. High-level of motivation does not prioritize the IQ since a 24/7 openness based on gratitude acquires strength based on consistency. One can be very clever but micro or macro intelligence can reach and be stopped by a ceiling when wider pictures are ignored or not trusted and even feared: the origin of Arts in any Civilisation has major Religious or Spiritual components.

[@JonahJayTaylor]

I think EQ with IQ is a better indicator of success than just IQ or EQ. You could be intelligent but without the ability to reason with your own self and those around you create a high probability of impeding failure. I see EQ as reason as to logic is structure. Logic is like the foundation of the fundamentals that you can build your ability to reason from, but I don't think humans are biologically structured this way instead this model was an adapted unknowingly. This is evident from the many irregular emotional behavioral disorders as our brains are processing information in a way that is for survival and the two worlds are vastly distinctly different. Obtaining dopamine from hunting and killing prey is much different than obtaining dopamine from going to a concert. One took much skill, determination and effort while the other required little to no effort and 5$. Repeat the latter and soon enough your brain wants more and more to obtain the same effect. This effect is well documented in the music industry as famous people will become severely depressed from the having the dopaminergic receptors constantly hit. Motivation seems to come from dopamine regulated in prefrontal cortex which correlates to short term and long-term decision making hence EQ. Interesting enough that people who have a damaged prefrontal cortex are more likely to become psychopaths which seems to be a lack of emotion control and decision making. You could argue that prefrontal cortex requires logic, which is true, but logic comes after the fact. Often times we feel emotions first before thinking about something logically. Which is why I purpose that only recently have humans started to use logic as a premise for the fundamental guidelines for reason.

[@eroceanos]

This is an absolutely brilliant lecture! Keep up the great work!

[@thecollageman3290]

Thank you great content

[@andersbech2611]

Great content

[@The.Collective.Objective.]

..."Go on spread the word, We're all busy learning on a learning curve." -Donna The Buffalo

[@missshroom5512]

Peter Joseph …creator of the Zeitgeist series…is soon coming out with Zeitgeist 4. He is such a brilliant thinker. I recommend the series for all big thinkers🤔❤️ This lecture was very good..Thankyou❤️🌎✌🏼

[@SamuelOrjiM]

Yes, like scarily yes. This is gonna hurt when the politicians find out. Now let's watch the lecture

[@shawnburnham1]

1:25:00

[@jamespercy8506]

would emergence of organism at a societal level be experienced as an enduringly ecstatic subsumption/abosorption? Is that why cults have the appeal that they do. Does this phenomena go to the heart of the healthy religious dynamic?

[@packardsonic]

Everyone can catalyze a paradigm shift in their city by getting 100 people to join an altruistic network like sharebay. The key to fostering prosocial behavior is to raise awareness that all people will be a benefit to society if all their physical and emotional needs are met, and that all people will become a burden or danger to society if any of their emotional or physical needs are not met.

[@MacSmithVideo]

Read stirner and disregard anyone telling you to subordinate yourself to their spooky ideology, and especially anyone that says society is an organism.

[@maggiezee411]

I love his concepts. Not his politics. The people who are supposedly protecting the lives of the unborn may say they are speaking for the voiceless. The whole campaign was started tho as a way to fuel conservative voices. It was not to save the voiceless. It is fake and phony to tag the "speaking for the voiceless" on to a purely political action. If he is going to enter I to politics, he needs to get some background information first.

[@thecollageman3290]

In Ireland we call it slaging or taking the piss out of someone

[@thecollageman3290]

If someone os getting a big head . We cut them down.

[@chipsfalling8625]

I can't stomach listening to this... society isn't an organism.. only the part of society that you relate to is possessed by the proverbial super-organism. The rest of us are individuals or some other isolated and/of autonomous social structure that doesn't adhere to looking, acting and submitting like the rest of the herd, hive, flock, colony or school does. Funny enough those that make up the 'diversity' rather than the bio-mass always seem to escape your gaze, "coincidence"? You want a hint to human nature that has alluded you, just use 'nature' ... human's and their social structures are a pattern of all of the social structures evident in nature. In equal proportions I presume, but I don't have enough evidence to make that claim an absolute. The 'difference' in nature and humans is that 'that' that took millions of years for the wider animal kingdom, has been hoisted upon us, all at once. God's language perhaps. Imagine all of the animals on the Serengeti having their appearances all changed, at the same time, to a new form, all the same form. So the zebra, python, hyena, vulture, leopard, ants and wart hog all shared the same appearance but all of their other primordial and contemporary instincts remaining as they were. This is the pattern that humans now inhabit. No other theory, bar none, can explain the human eco-system as well. Try for once in your life to consider the root cause instead of the symptom.

[@tl4172]

The world view that looks to capitalize and monetize the natural urge to help others, illustrates the parasitic nature exhibited by the Prosocial World Inc on humanity. David wants to be paid for social good, that only he can define. Cult's are started with less inept or educated fools, but sign up for his Prosocial network, and watch the constant requests for a fee to learn his amazing system on how to co-operate increasing his foundations wealth. Tax free of course, because he is " virtuous in aspirations", and his corporation is a tax free. Pay to learn how to co-operate, Prosocial knows how to take your Visa number.

[@micheldisclafani2343]

Human nature has never changed and never will, we can only improve life!

[@marcodallolio9746]

Our nature is to adapt to our culture and environment. In my experience, any attempt to fill the black box of human nature with immutable and essential charateristics is almost always ideologically motivated. If we're essentially selfish, there's a good chance it's a conservative talking, if we're essentially altruistic then it's a leftist. At the end of the day, we are whatever makes sense in our accidental circumstances

[@simonmasters3295]

Shall we discuss "Human Nature"? Humans have destroyed their natural environment for 10,000 years...just a lot faster acceleration in rate since 1950..

[@thephilosophicalagnostic2177]

Human nature is biological, therefore it can change only slowly. Cultural evolution involves the development of ideas. These can change rapidly. This is how humans have adapted the environment for our own flourishing.

[@ronkrate609]

POOR AUDIO. I left

[@MacSmithVideo]

Author of "Atlas Hugged"...GROAN. bunch of z-grade collectivist gibberish.