Brain Science 101
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As a psychologist this was very informative and entertaining. I’m also baffled by the people’s needs to put themselves into boxes, like left brain x right brain or virgo x scorpio x gemni. Like, why aren’t people more interested in just being themselves instead of chasing a label?
THANK YOU!!
I was put through the enlightenment, given a greater mind
Such a good talk, I love you for this. Il most likely watch all of your videos now
You say, 'we have no unifying theory of the mind.' Tell that to my older brother (both in our sixties here), who is both an autodidactic genius at an astonishing level, and one of the most emotionally-scarred individuals I have ever known. I was there, to see how the former was often the direct cause of the latter, in a cold-war educational/cultural atmosphere where people, especially demonstrably bright or gifted young children, exceeding their station and questioning their orders were seen as rebellious and subversive, and punished accordingly. Primarily with emotional abuse in one form or another. The cold war was a sustained exercise in emotional abuse in a quest for loyal subjects as opposed to well-developed thinkers at every level. I was there. It was not pretty.
The psychotic and dysfunctional abuses of power by the gerontocratic 'baby boom' today, and the plain fact that so many have refused to relinquish such power until their very death-beds, speaks for itself: emotional abuse and the misdirecting of personal capacity into personal advancements disguised as geopolitical mandates are the constant in the biographies of those who grew up during the cold war, which (on all parts and irrespective of ideology) was primarily a war against individual human autonomy and agency, itself. Humanity lost.
In his lifelong quest to anatomize his emotional trauma (similar to my own in motives, having grown up in the same times and household, but vastly different in both emphasis and objectives), my beloved big brother skimmed a few books (as autodidacts do) and perused a few journal articles out of academia (at which autodidacts tend to overestimate their comprehensions of esoteric jargon meant to be professionally exclusionary), and came to the conclusion that ALL human behavior may be not merely explained, but explained away as all but irrelevant, by the fact that the brain is an electrochemical machine that he knows more about than (the figurative) 'you' do, and that his readings of electrochemical behaviors are all he needs to know about why people are the way they are and do the things they do.
Naturally, these all-inclusive principles do not apply to my brother himself, except when they do. His own intensively emotional and irrational behaviors, coupled with his aggressively supercilious argumentation when challenged on them, make him all but impossible to talk to other than on his terms, which he can easily justify by spouting some dilettantish paraphrasing of brain-science scholarship he'd taken a quick look at, once upon a time.
If you were to ask me whether the brain is the servant, or the master, of the individual human life, I would simply answer, Yes.
Ask him, and brace yourself for a lengthy, mocking and verbose treatise on the dismissible motives you had had for asking the question.
He is the smartest person I know, his self-directed achievements in life as an academic dropout and self-taught practitioner of multiple advanced disciplines are beyond formidable, and he is the most impossible interlocutor I have ever encountered, because he thinks that what and how he thinks is because of what he read somewhere about how one thinks, and is thus off the hook for ever examining the real-life questions of.... why.
video actually really good