Holy macaroni is this family awesome, and we're pretty lucky we get to enjoy a bit of that time together. Thanks for that! All 3 of you are top notch, regardless of the propensity for cavities!!
Enjoyed that so very much! I am so interested in Prof Sapolsky's work and try at least every day, to watch some of his lectures. He is incredible and a great inspiration in my life. Many thanks!!! Thomas Lund.
A very common thing i noted concerning some North Asian and North American medicine persons, is that both the teachings, taking on of apprentices, and the community position of being an Evenk shaman, a Buryat olmen, or , using our translation again, Medicine person of North and Mesoamerican tribes, is that they are familial traditions. The practitioners run in families. An lrigin storry or two also point to the first selected person, talked with the animals, translating their language, which may mean something else entirely, as some of us are more attentive to meaningful behaviors of other species. That attentional skill is not more highly correlated with schizotypy. Much more can be said, as, for example, remembering the mnemonic symbols, petroglyph instructions that preceded highly symbolic writing, and which show remarkable consistency of mnemonic meaning, accurately, is a skill. The usage of plants, the often complex and numerous rituals, these tend to require that ease of learning, analogization, that MOST of a tribe would havve to forgo, just as most of any culture depend upon specialized professionals, be they artisans, musicians, rememberers. One of my psych instructors, who had a schizophrenic brother, pointed out how there was an hereditary component, telling us that creativity and schizophrenia were also significsntly more familially correlated. In a professional dance career, it is easily noticeable that prolific choreographers were NOT social, in the sense that schizotypals are socially uninterested, in comparison with dancers. Without delving further, several personality types regarded as abnormal, DSM, and other diagnostic evaluation, are increasingly regarded as stemming from relatively similar phenotypes. (on the latter issue, i find it more enlightening to become conversant with WHO as well as APA, differential diagnostics. Neuropsychology is essential, as are Dr. Sapolsky's and others' research into hormones as cognitive and behavioral differences. I only differ in not favoring such therapies, as much emotiocognitive stress arises from the cultures in which all humans are embedded!)
Mom is missing from the picture. It looks to me both son & daughter are father like. I am 65, romanian working & living in Italy, and I am so happy to see my favoured intelectual hero's family!😍
Ahcoo hhaha thats was good!! Ya got good kids… good job? Lol;) ok my question finally… what wise advice would you leave for your offspring? And one for the offspring if i could… what is your favorite memory with your wonderful dad?:) love this series… please keep doing this:)
From Brazil here. Nice to see the male offspring as well!! Question: Prof, your writing style is distinguishable!! Millionaire vocab + tons of style. Do you have references of authors out of the world of science? What 's one of your non scientific fav book pls? How is your routine to write your fascinating books? Tks!!
Greetings from the Philippines, Dr. Robert and family! Absolutely loving the father and son offspring series! Thank you very much for all the wisdom and knowledge you've shared with us throughout the years. I had a question with regards to your thoughts on how our current everyday technologies (AI, Internet, Social Media) affects our neurological and biological makeup. Do you think the future generations will lose, evolve or inherit certain traits because of these tech?
This came on me feed first thing this morning. It was a wonderful way to start the day. Extremely interesting information delivered by an extremely charming group. (Pup included!)
What a witty & funny episode! All my happy hormones are dancing right now! And the schizotypal teaching totally makes sense to me, especially when I look at what's going on in my own family.
I would love to know more about the genetic versus nature of narcissistic personalities. That's what runs in my family, although I believe it's nurture, I mean, the lack of proper nurture.
For everyone wondering I looked up Pneu Dart and they still sell the "Blo-Jector" for $99, so if you want to cosplay a primatology researcher this Halloween you better save your lunch money.
Mirror Neurons are "merely" that intricate part of the human that echos inside-outside holographic positioning presence.. Let's go through the Looking Glass Universe analysis and just hang consciousness in No-thing Relativity, using Math-Physics and all the material Professor Sapolsky's works have contributed. This will be what, how and why inside-outside holographic positioning presence is teaching-learning continuity of us, the human family.
Hey Sapolsky kids, fun to see you doing this. I started using the film Stress: Portrait of a Killer years back in a study skills class that I grounded in stress awareness. Students were rapt. Lovely to see the young adults you've become.
I confess the difficulty of remaining in Agnostic neutrality in the face of emphatic religious astrology, epicycles, numerological abstractions and big bang type guessing games that all kept immediate observable phenomena away from serious scrutiny by unscientific mis labelling and systematic denigrating of unconformist reiterative analysis, from actual elemental first principles, if you know what they are, by Observation.
I think he was going to say that the schizotypal people end up reading fortunes and astrology and crystals and stuff. Oh, nevermind, they just said it for me. I paused too early 😂
I love these videos. I've learned a lot from watching Dr. Sapolsky's videos. It's good to see that he's a pretty regular guy in real life. The dog looking for attention makes me laugh as well. Mine does that too.
Oh my goodness! You hit on a few subtle things. Nice to meet "Bro" - I can just see you all at card games. Of course, the way the cards fall depends on your eye color - just kidding 🙂 Smh - tomorrow I have to go to the dentist. One of my molars blew out. Actually, I probably popped a crown, but I digress. Phencyclidine. Eeesh! Does the memory come back? Sounds scary. Kind of reminds me of getting bitten by a rattlesnake. Don't go there. At least your baboons recover well from an anesthetic that only lasts so long. Around here every once in awhile someone has to dart a mountain lion that wonders into an area it doesn't belong or such. Always entertaining to hear of one wondering the streets of SF or somewhere - Btw, just found an article today with the usual annual Spring warning to watch out for rattlesnakes if you go out hiking. Tis the season. Thank you for sharing. Nice to have a little fun.
The question 4 has been answered intensely in two lectures fully available on RU-vid (Schizophrenia) and Religion. You guys could have picked my question instead of that question 4 😭.
Given that he's cool enough to tag along consistently for interviews, I'd say so. I've hardly had a real conversation with my father let alone I couldn't imagine doing a drawn out in depth podcast with him, various reasons lol
He's empathic and he knew what not to do to children. I'm guessing, of course but that's how I see it. I had a catastrophic lives being the scapegoat of my family from birth but I'm thankful I didn't have children. Since I found out about my narcissistic cult-like family I have been questioning about free will since manipulation, indoctrination and brainwashing is so extended in any system but still a taboo to talk about especially if is the mother who has the disorder.
10:49 Part of the answer could be we have out-evolved Mother Nature. IOW, through our intelligence, innovation, technology, etc., we can complete with MN's selective pressure in the sense that people with traits that would not have reproduced in the past -- that is, sexual selection would not have favored them -- can now reproduce thereby propagating this trait. Additionally, you can survive and reproduce mostly singularly whereas in the past you needed to be integrated in your tribe of 150. If your traits were such that you could not integrate with your tribe then either you were kicked out and died or otherwise couldn't reproduce. It could also be that modernity amplifies these traits/conditions -- sedentism, isolation, short-term gratification, coundless attention-grabbing things, general dread having to deal with innumerable strangers, shitty diet, institutions (wars, constant bombardment of bad news, grand-scale deception/propaganda, etc.) -- and evolution cannot keep pace with technology (
I guess one's inclination to dispense punishment or prasie are beyond concious control, and for the person being praised or punished you have become part of their environment that will act upon their biological inclinations.
Our brains are about survival. If something is too tough for your brain, it would be hidden somewhere in your subconscios. It's not an act of will because that choice doesn't come from your cortex but your limbic system.
