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[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

This guy is a legend. I've never encountered anybody who has researched such a vast array of topics. Suffice to say, nothing should be taken for granted, but to be honest, I could listen to Sapolsky for hours, also due to the calm manner in which he presents his knowledge.

[@jairoalonso7349]

He has such a great human behavior

[@karasprouse595]

Yes he is Dr. Sapolsky and Dr. Swaab are two of the greatest legends of neuroscience of our time.

[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

@@karasprouse595 I don't know the latter one. Is he a public figure?

[@ericphilo6194]

on youtube Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other? | Robert Sapolsky reference this quickie a lot. agree

[@Khiff]

One of the most recent interview with Robert Sapolsky. You, sir, just earned my like.

[@droughdough]

He so thoroughly explains complex concepts in such a digestible manner. It's geniuses that can explain something in such a way.

[@lztoria]

Thank you Mr. Sapolsky for trying to pass on as many copies of your incredible knowledge. 🤓🤓🤓

[@shanarembichanu5927]

Dr. Robert is amazing, I have been learning a lot after watching his Stanford's classes. Thanks for the interview. He is making a huge contribution to human kind and to our society.

[@rowenab.747]

It's always a treat listening to this guy! Watched his lectures on YT and want more!

[@venkataponnaganti]

The thoroughness of Sapolasky in these matters is amazing . I am very fond of listening to him.

[@venkataponnaganti]

I loved this interview.

[@nickidaisyreddwoodd5837]

Thank you for this amazing interview.

[@lanvywynn]

this was actually a better interview than the one he did with with joe rogan. GREAT JOB!!

[@jameslovell5721]

Fantastic interview. This channel is awesome. Thank you so much. :)

[@DoorknobHead]

Wow! Sapolsky! So many big and important names on this channel. Amazing. 00:50 I also went through all of Sapolsky's online Human Behavioral Biology KZbin lectures. It was interesting, and somewhat disturbing, that the one on religion was ostensibly removed from the battery delivered from Stanford and had to be found from another source. The class that touched on religion seemed perfectly staid to me.

[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

There is one version of the religiosity lecture up on KZbin which was filmed some time ago, probably the early 2000's. In it, Sapolsky draws a line between religiosity, shamanism and schizotypal personality disorder.

[@benhudson4014]

'we've evolved our evolvability" golden!

[@enterestado]

No idea you had this legend in your channel.

[@gaithouri]

Please please..let him know we want mooooore lectuuures...he's magnificent. ..

[@TheRescueDog]

I enjoy most of his lectures but I found it interesting that he got some things wrong in some of them. I have a degree in business so it surprised me I even caught them. It's a good reminder even experts aren't infallible.

[@LikeTheVik]

Dr Sapolsky I love you you magnificent human being

[@nickidaisyreddwoodd5837]

Humpback Whales, Blue Whales and Macrocephalus Whales have much larger neo cortices including prefrontal cortices also in regards to brain body ratio than the most intelligent humans. The whales think about philosophy, they rescue baby dolphins, they rescue humans, they go way out of their ways to do something good, they have huge compassion and huge amygdalae.

[@fabiotomasandrademartins2428]

WOW. Isto está incrível! Parabéns!!

[@suzieQna]

♥️♥️ Sapolsky. Good to know from the man himself that the Stanford course is still pertinent by those percentage points. I was totally wowed by him in that series and, further, by his latest book. Such a funny and beautiful person.

[@Amaterasu_990]

Totally agree KommentarSpaltenKrieger 129394032: Sapolsky is a legend ~ thank you The Dissenter, for this interview :D

[@paulheinrichdietrich9518]

24:15 "Free will is counter to everything we know about science" glad someone finally said it and not invent some bullshit compatibilist theory like most modern philosophers do.

[@MsJavaWolf]

Mt bullshit compatibilist theory is, that I simply am this body. This biological system does make decisions, I don't need more than that.

[@martymartmartin4740]

Good quality interview and good quality journalism, thank you

[@andrewandersonbmx7009]

Sapolsky is the best 👍🏼

[@armoda1057]

Awesome

[@OMGASL]

Legendary lecturer and academic. Nice to hear the Patreon list getting longer too!

[@jonstewart464]

Sapolsky for world king. I doubt he'd want the job, but if he did it, the world would no longer be a shithole.

[@JamesSmith-kt3bi]

Though I love Sapolsky, the question begged in some of the research he quotes is the morality of the experiments, however benign, on monkeys and rats and other animals is this morally acceptable?

[@DivineBanana]

Thumbnail looked like an epic rap battle of history. Thought this was gonna go differently.

[@JuanRodriguez-tr6st]

Awesome.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

I would to have Robert Sapolsky talk some sense into Tony Robbins.

[@jessewallace12able]

I am a huge fan of Sapolsky. I’ll make this quick… there are some crimes so horrific that to say there is no choice in the matter doesn’t seem like a workable hypothesis, I would rather not state what those crimes are but they are real- and is Sapolsky aware of them?

[@pattimichellesheaffer103]

We need another update on the "Zebras" book, please.

[@Alguear]

It would be great if you can include spanish/portuguese subtitles of this interview.

[@polarbianarchy3333]

Could we organize our cultural diversity within the idea we are all Humans, we are all us, if we dismantle dominance and divisions in our global economic value system? Certainly dominance is environmental and we control environment.... No?

[@StevenDykstra-u3b]

Empathy in modern-day parlance is considered sympathy, but these words are not similar and often involve the simular.

[@Mhumaikani1993]

So Robert Sapolsky would disagree with Robert Plomin? Interesting

[@suzieQna]

M Humaikani care to elaborate on "interesting"?

[@Mhumaikani1993]

@@suzieQna Both of them form their perspective on life based only on science. Plomin is a geneticist and what I understand from his position is that he thinks that what shapes a person is primarily his genes and he gives minimal regard to the developmental environment. On the other hand, Sapolsky (whom I am more acquainted to his work) gives significant regard to the developmental environment. It would be truly "interesting" to see the two having a discussion. Do you find my analysis of their stances correct or you see things differently?

[@MissEviscerator]

Ramble: Sapolsky emphasises the significance of gene-environment interactions, and I completely agree with his perspective. He acknowledges a clear interplay between genes and environment but he's right to say, if you only had one question, you would ask about the environment. If you hand me a gene panel in isolation, in a majority of cases I can't tell you anything about the individual, what pathologies they have, let alone how they behave. Even if they did have a gene with a certain pathological association, there is also extremely variable gene expression between individuals with the same genetic profile. I don't doubt genetics will turn out to be more nuanced than we currently understand but investigating the cycle of up/downstream signalling in response to environmental factors provides a much more 'live-action' picture of what is going on beneath the surface at this time, and explains phenotypic variability that goes way beyond the traditional notion of binary on/off gene expression.

[@darkel2242]

@@MissEviscerator i'm pretty skeptical about that

[@kirstinstrand6292]

Interesting! I've believed that Human Will is questionable and that Fate is most likely.

[@benan9751]

The thumbnail of this video looks like an Epic Rap Battles thumbnail lol

[@shravyadevadhar2807]

😂😂😂

[@sourenasahraian2055]

Bring up the issue of adultery or cheating to a bunch of physiologists or mental health counselors and you'd be surprised as to how many pathological , self restraint arguments they are going to evoke with an utter ignorance and indifference to the simple biological underpinnings of the issue .

[@babisandrikopulos5393]

YESSSSSSSSS!!!

[@nickidaisyreddwoodd5837]

Haha Trust me the Dalai Lama is Not a Buddha. He is only worshiped as one. The Dalai Lama is for animal testing which is abhorrent. He is definitely thinking in terms of us versus them. He is a sexist, speciesist and he is arrogant. One time a fan tried to greet him at a public place in India and the Dalai Lama snubbed him right in front of the camera which is cold and it was painful for the fan. (But yeah I understand that Dr. Sapolsky meant it more as an eye twinkling but still let's not portray the Dalai Lama any better than he actually is.)

[@cantavoidtrite]

Are him and Dr. Robert Plomin on opposite sides of the genetic/epigenetic/environment debate?

[@darkel2242]

Yeah he's involve in all of this environmental bullshit

[@VladyslavKL]

🦋

[@mikekensington1705]

Sapolsky has an agenda.

[@timeisup3094]

So. Is Sapolsky saying that IQ heritability can be different in different environments?

[@ataraxia7439]

Yeah all results are a combo of environment acting upon genes not one or the other

[@timeisup3094]

@@ataraxia7439 Agreed

[@Randys138]

Interesting interview but objectively unmeasurable I. Humans simply theories

[@poor_jafar]

24:27 29:01

[@paulheinrichdietrich9518]

Are those crows?

[@jimmills4157]

Genes vs environment.... developmental history is more important. Sounds like he’s been on the left coast too long. It’s a nice position to take. Lysenkoism: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism.

[@namelessrationalist636]

Hahaha funny joke, +5 points to Gryffindor.