#sapolsky — Public Fediverse posts

TBT I miss my speaking goat avatar.
https://philosophics.blog/2024/03/06/video-response-to-response-on-sapolsky-v-dennett-debate/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #determinism #video #reaction #Sapolsky #dennett #goat #avatar #freewill #perspective #blog #response #debate #reality #Gödel #youtube #TBT

So literally, till we are 25, or mammalian part of the brain is not fully developed and we might be a little more edgy and impulsive.
#behave #sapolsky

#Schizophrenia, #Fiction, #Brachydactyly | #RobertSapolsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJd0UsFC_F4

Episode 48 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the #auditory #hallucination of schizophrenia, #Sapolsky’s brachydactyly fingers, and the #benefits of fiction.

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I was going to use youtube videos to firstly introduce #RobertSapolsky then go to another which has a pinky-scarlet cover image (link below) on the topic of #Transgender neurobiology which has #Sapolsky relating the current understandings of neurobiology to how transgender folk function around #GenderIdentity. It's worth watching both for the science content and to see Robert's use of #Tone, #Attitude and #ChoiceOfPathTaken.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9UWstTwbP4

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#EdWalker making a very useful formulation of free will.

How, other than #Sapolsky's formulation as seen by #NikhilKrishnan below, do you conceive of #FreeWill?

" ... A man, Sapolsky invites us to imagine, “pulls the trigger of a gun.” That’s one description. Another is that “the muscles in his index finger contracted.” Why? “Because they were stimulated by a neuron,” which was in turn “stimulated by the neuron just upstream. . . . And so on.” (... continued)

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/01/13/coming-to-grips-with-free-will/

#Freethought Matters - Robert #Sapolsky - #FFRF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br51pmtsnus

#RobertSapolsky is a professor of #biology, #neurological sciences and #neurosurgery at #StanfordUniversity, and he's a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. His many books include A #Primates Memoir, #Monkey Luv, The Trouble With #Testosterone and Why #Zebras Don't Get #Ulcers.
#ATHEISM #ATHEIST #SCIENCE