3 Brain Systems That Control Your Behavior: Reptilian, Limbic, Neo Cortex | Robert Sapolsky
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You have three brains-the triune, the limbic, and the cortex-and they're all fighting for dominance as you go about your life. The so-called lizard brain (the triune) is perhaps the one we tend to think of as instinctual and gives us our basic instincts like, for example, staying alive or not touching fire. The limbic brain controls our emotions like fear and desire, while our cortex gives us the knowledge that makes us human. Basically, the three brains talk to one another and vie for rank in certain situations... it's sort of like Three's Company except with brain systems. For instance: you're reminded of something sad by your cortex and it triggers your limbic system, or you get cut off in traffic your lizard brain can trigger the cortex and the limbic. It is a pretty fascinating subject, and Robert Sapolsky waxes poetic about the three distinct "characters" that live up inside your head.
Robert Sapolsky's most recent book is Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.
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ROBERT M SAPOLSKY:
Robert M. Sapolsky holds degrees from Harvard and Rockefeller Universities and is currently a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University and a Research Associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. His most recent book is Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.
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Transcript:
ROBERT SAPOLSKY: What’s the best way to think about the brain? It’s insanely complicated. Everything connects to everything. A gazillion little subregions.
Amid all that complexity there’s a broadly sort of simplifying way to sort of think about aspects of brain function when it comes to behavior. And this was an idea put forth by this guy Paul MacLean, a grand poohbah on the field, conceptually of thinking of the brain as coming in three functional layers.
The triune brain-and again this is highly schematic-the brain really doesn’t come in three layers, but one could think of the first most, the bottom most, the most ancient as being what’s often termed the “reptilian brain,” where basically the parts in there, we’ve got the same wiring as in a lizard, as in any ancient creature. It’s been there forever-ancient, ancient wiring at the base of the brain, most inside. And what does that region do? All the regulatory stuff. Your body temperature changes, it senses it and causes you to sweat or shiver. It’s monitoring your blood glucose levels. It’s like releasing hormones that are essential to sort of everyday shop keeping. It’s just keeping regulatory stuff in balance.
Sitting on top of that is conceptually what could be termed the limbic system, the emotional part of the brain. And this is very much a mammalian specialty. Lizards are not well known for their emotional lives. Part of the brain having to do with fear, arousal, anxieties, sexual longings, all those sorts of things - very mammalian. You’re off there in the grasslands butting heads with somebody else with antlers, and its your limbic system that’s heavily involved in that.
Then sitting on the top is the layer three, the cortex. The cortex, spanking new, most recently evolved part of the brain. Everybody’s got a little bit of cortex but it’s not until you get to primates that you’ve got tons, and then apes, and then us. So functionally it’s very easy to think of this simplistic flow of commands. Layer two, the limbic system, can make layer one, the reptilian brain, activate. When is that? Your heart beats faster not because of a regulatory reptilian thing-Ooh, you’ve been caught in something painful but oh, an emotional state. You’re a wildebeest and they’re some scary menacing wildebeest threatening you and that emotional state causes your limbic system to activate the reptilian brain and your heart beats faster. You have a stress response. Not because a regulatory change happened in your body but for an emotional reason.
Then it’s very easy to think of, layered on top, this cortical area commanding your second layer, your limbic system to have an emotional response rather than something emotional: Here’s a threatening beast right in front of you. Something emotional. You see a movie that’s emotionally upsetting. See a movie. These are not real characters. They’re pixels and it’s your cortex that’s turning that abstract cognitive state into an emotional response.
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When it comes to survival, this is my favorite quote about instinct: "There are no bad instincts. Only bad environments." Dan Sadler
That speaks volumes to the point it goes ignored. Gotta love the world right 👍
😅I can think of many inappropriate things that doesn’t fit in anything acceptable, either way.
Sure has nothing to do with the environment
@@c.s.hirstndt9648 yea like you
I love how calmly he articulates these concepts. A lot of speakers can be really forceful or overly excited about the points they're making. This is a breath of fresh air.
He was (and may still be, I'm not sure) a professor. Teaching concepts is kinda his bread and butter, but I agree with what you said all the same.
I am guilty of getting too excited when people want to hear about the things I’m interested in lol
A few days ago I attended a large protest. Many thousands of people angry, shouting, being irrational. It was the most horrible thing to experience.
I distanced myself from the protesters. Put on noise cancelling headphones so I didn't hear the chanting anymore. And listened to a positive ancient book, the Dhammapada. In 10 minutes all the negativity and discomfort was gone. I was more at peace than ever before.
It are moments like that when you realize how much control you can have over your feelings by thinking the right things.
Since that moment I've been listening to & reading Sapolsky non stop.
May we have some calm control over that little which we actually have control over. Such that we can be better beings. Calm. In control. Just. Wise. Rational.
this guy has literally changed my life, I wish his perspective on the brain and living and biology could be given to every single person in the world, it would solve so many problems lol!
Thoughs, feelings, and instincts are the three fundamentals elements of Personality and is mirrored in the brain.
Professor Sapolski, I accidentally came upon one of your early lectures a few years ago, and watched a little, then you had me laughing and learning so much that I watched everything you've given us. I love what you do and the way you teach and I'm so glad I get to listen to you some more. I'm delighted that you keep teaching through the years. Thank you.
Thank you for such great amazing lesson on neurology.
wow every 6 months- a year from now watch this video and you will realize the information you miss and now gained!! very deep
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Gen 1: Need
Gen 2: Want
Gen 3: Logic
Thnks this is a lot simpler
Gen: 4 Enlightenment and beyond the brain
Layer 1- Instincts, Layer 2- Emotions and Layer 3- Reason
@@tnl-warrior3218 😂
Need want have
I really like this guy, clear explanations, interesting subjects
Luciano almeida filho try his Standford lectures. so good.
I concur
Yes. Inspiring.
Yeah, it's really remarkable when you think about it; Here, explain how the brain functions in 8 minutes or less. Go!
Robert Sapolsky: Hold my beer.
His books are even better.
I so wanna hang out with this dude
Yes, but he doesn't want to, he told me that
@@captainalkaloid5342 haha 😂😂
He is absolutely kind!
I don't. This is the last public intellectual that I have unvarnished respect for. Whatever awfulness that there is in his personality, I want to be long dead when it comes out.
he's waiting for you at the cafe
I’m going to tell my kids this was Socrates
Socrates was executed publicly for "corrupting" kids so... yea
@@aocplusme5676 Oof
Lmao
@@aocplusme5676 Did he actually corrupt kids or is that just how those people felt.
@@aocplusme5676 He didn't corrupt no one. He was too good at asking questions and people got offended becasue they couldn't answer. Something like that.
When your neuroscientist is a rockstar... XD
Rick Rubinstein!
Pfff. Good luck employing that “wisdom”. I’ll stick with aristotle etc
He is a biologist. Robert Scapolsky (sp).
@@ibperson7765 What do you mean? (And I'm asking as a reader of Aristotle.)
@@NicoAssaf Maybe Aristotle wasnt the best choice. I was just saying that all my attempts to benefit from modern psychology and biology and neurochemistry didnt make me thrive. For one thing they keep saying love yourself and “self-esteeem!!” (which Im not against anyone loving themselves but is not a strategy). Ancient wisdom the way to go. First I had to finally escape the impossible and self-contradictory prison of scientific materialism. In fact, I meditate a lot (many retreats etc). And have have profound and transcendent experiences and eventually experienced what I can only call the divine. And there were three united, manifold aspects. Researched the trinity and found it profound. Finally picked up the bible and everything Ive ever been told about it is wrong. It is the most read book in world history by a huge margin for a reason. (One example, I was always told we have no idea what the nt actually said, and it is a translation of a translation through many languages and lost. No, John wrote his gospel in Greek, I have a modern English translation.. but I digress). Also love advaita. Wise. I now view stuff like the above as trite sciency glitter as far as leading an awesome life. Maybe works for some. Never worked for me. Always sounded good, never useful for life.
Omg I love Dr. Sapolsky!
His lectures on human behavioral biology are so witty!!!
I hope any of my professors are as engaging.
I feel so much more informed after listening to your talk. Thank you so much! Now I'm wondering how going to counseling every week and bringing up those traumatic thoughts is beneficial. Or is it not?
My brain is feeling more enlightened unto itself after hearing this👍 Thanks
Love the video. Thanks for posting.
All mr. Sapolsky videos on this channel were really interesting. Thank you, Big Think!
this is so awesome. Some actual study and use of the placebo effect.
Best part is "think about" . He could have used the word imagination. We imagine all day long dictating what our next experience will be. The brain gathers everything in its arsenal to make you get what you imagine. The cortext has a job of making you happy even if sadness is your happiness. Become aware of the following and witness for yourself. Continuous brain imaginations: The need to be right, important, serious, criticize, stand out, special, more..more, not enough, victim, perpetrator. These imaginations or thoughts are constantly going through our brains. Ninety-nine percent of people are completely run by their imaginations and have no clue they can witness, imagine the opposite at any given time thus changing the outcome of their experience. Often it is our self telling us to imagine the exact opposite which is what we truly want. It can be used as a guidance system until we understand the brain processes, environment and the human gift we were born with. I hope you're hearing.
How would you fix over imagination?
Thank you for this comment.
@@thinkingagain5966 by the right thinking.
Exactly.
@@thinkingagain5966 by mental hygiene. Like not watching TV. Especially ads and news. By being on open air more and less in closed human made space. By not buying smartphones to often. E.t.c.
Looking Good. Love your lectures. Thanks so much for all the uploads.
Yes, inverse (from the reptilian brain to the cortex) can also be postural. Certain physical postures can have a state-change effect on higher-order cognitive functions. Especially when engaged with a strong visualization, which can create a coherence across the brain. Prompting a State Change.
so… psychedelics?
weird thing is… im doing the wim hof method daily, and i use cannabis before the exercises to reach a almost psychedelic state, when i found out that placing a weighted thingy on my chest, it really helps me to breathe deeply and easily.
@@duhast43 I have used the same methods in the past, to great results. I experimented with the weights at first, to help guide my mind through the breath inside the body. It has now become a purely mindful process, as I work to integrate the Kundalini breath with the Blessing of the Energy Centers meditation by Dr. Joe Dispenza. Very powerful stuff. Blessings to you in your cultivation
@@duhast43 Visualization doesn't mean visuals. It means imagining something, such as you working and succeeding (which prompts your brain to fire transmitters/hormones related to the creation and feeling of success). But psychedelics can give you introspection on this process and let you get a bird's eye perspective on your own behavior. It more easily allows you to realize how fluid your sense of “self” is, thus giving you a bit of leeway on changing behavior. But psychedelics shmyckedelics. They won't do shit if you don't have the mindset to suffer & work for it, so focus more on visualization than visuals hahah
"humans, as civilized as Vulcans when well fed, as barbaric as Klingons when hungry" - some star trek paraphrase I thought of when he mentioned that people judge transgression be more harshley when hungry
Well we’re animals at our core, if you put us in situations where only animal instincts and cold rational thought can help us survive then yes. Although even in those situations people can do kind acts which is surprising and totally goes against how the survival instinct should work so it is impressive
Not justifying anything but if everyone on earth had enough food everyday, there would be a lot less crime and violence. Again, is not that simple but that would help.
I once heard
“If it feels like you’re angry with everyone, eat something.
If it feels like everyone is angry with you, get some sleep.”
Lol 😁 I always appreciate illustrations in star trek lingo. 🖖
@@Galifamackus🤔 I like that saying....
This is amazing. I think this can be useful in terms of recovering from trauma. Besel van der Kolk's best-selling book The Body Keeps the Score discusses how the body can carry trauma at a cellular level that the mind has no memory of making conventional Freudian "talk therapy" not only ineffective but sometimes dangerous. If you are encouraged to engage someone who traumatized you when you were dependent upon them, it could trigger the feelings you felt at the time the trauma originally occurred, which could cause you to shut down or go into fight or flight mode. All 3 of these systems affect one another in subtle and complex ways. Thanks again for this important material. : )
We need neuroscientific technologies very desperately too. It is _extremely_ hard to change deeply rooted brain patterns from the outside in.
@@squamish4244 That is so true. Once I really understood how certain kinds and degrees of traumas can alter a person, I have come to believe that is almost impossible to undo the damage after the fact. The impossible part, unfortunately, seems more likely, and the almost part seems to suggest a sliver of hope. The book I alluded to in the previous post concedes your point. Van der Kolk claims that you cannot negotiate or reason with a traumatized body. The only thing that you can do is to try to quite literally rewire the system, which he says can be done by doing what he refers to as "adult play." A traumatized body is stiff and unyielding because it is always tight and braced for danger. He says that you do not have to remember the details or revisit the original trauma to begin to try to repair the damage. You simply have to be willing to acknowledge that you were traumatized and have a sincere desire to want to do something about it. He says that if you are stuck in survival mode, you are merely existing, which he does not consider actually living. I wholeheartedly agree. Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs posits 5 levels. The first level concerns the basics, you know, food and shelter. The second level solely concerns personal safety. The top 3 levels include imagination, creativity, friendship, intimacy, warmth, kindness, generosity, love, laughter, appreciation for beauty and nature, wisdom, and all of the other potentially positive, constructive, enjoyable aspects of the human experience. Survival is existing, but it is not really being alive. Van der Kolk claims that if you engage in adult play, which includes dancing, laughter, walking, running, swimming, bicycle riding, wiggling, jumping, rolling down a hill on a grassy slope, etc., anything that gets the body moving, you can rewire the body and get it out of its stiff, protective mode. Adult play can convince the body that it is safe in the here and now on this day in this year of 2022, as opposed to every day being the day, month or year in which the body was originally traumatized. By acknowledging that you were traumatized and engaging in "adult play," you are taking responsibility for your own life experience by reprogramming your body to believe that it is safe in the here and now. Apparently, this adult play has a cumulative effect and can eventually rewire your physical apparatus to stop bracing for danger and begin experiencing all the good things that a human life can offer. To recap, fear is a mechanism that we have to alert us to danger. We are not supposed to spend most of our lives in fear. Fear is not a viable, meaningful state of being. This dynamic also applies to animals. My daughter who is now 22 used to volunteer for a no-kill animal shelter when she was in high school that sought healthy adoptive homes for dogs. The owner of the shelter and her husband kept all of the dogs that she and her husband affectionately referred to as "the criminals," who were the dogs that will probably never recover from, say, their previous owners having intentionally thrown them down a flight of stairs.Finally, Van der Kolk was traumatized himself as a child. After several wasted years in conventional psychological therapy, he branched out on his own and discovered these things about trauma and then developed a solution in the form of "adult play." Another doctor to refer to on this subject is Dr. Gabor Mate, who was also traumatized as a child and is himself still engaged in the process of healing and recovery while he also attempts to help others. As you say, it is difficult to change the system from the outside, but I want to and actually do believe that it is possible to change it and ultimately the only thing worth doing if you want to live a life of meaning.
@@squamish4244 it's not hard, just unfamiliar. The techniques are all there, they simply don't get acknowledged yet.
@@kimberknutson831 I guarantee I knew what you were going to say before you said it. Adult play will and does cure even psychopathy and absorbing the hurt that was unfairly put upon their psyche as a child. Helpless as they were....... But who is going to volunteer for that?????
Someone who almost doesn't have the option and has 100 mulligans saved up which allows them to forgive and disassociate the violence from the being which after the bitterness and fear is settled will want the best for that person as they saw some hope there.
I guarantee I have successfully done this over a 2 year period and my former psychopath/best friend can prove it. Not sociopath....... I mean full on one in a million "I love to see you in pain!" Haha ha haha psycho laugh at the end. Towards the end they
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face." -- Mike Tyson
The consequences of our irration are punches we, and future generations cannot avoid. Robert is insightful but he has yet to understand how and why the ration and meaning of emotions function within our thought process. Thanks for the laugh,with empathy Pete.
This one cracked my up, It's actually relevant to the vid
@@peteryunge-bateman5807 How many of his college courses have you actually taken, for you to make such a claim? I've taken quite a few, and he has quite a deep understanding...
pity the fool
Fear or response to mortality can change how your cortex process things. So, yeah, it can basically wipe out your rational plan about your fighting strategies.
This is absolutely and utterly beautiful and fascinating!
Great vid, got some new perspectives
Very well articulated, very insightful!
Thank you for this video explanation!
👍I really like this channel very much.
All videos are equally thought-provoking.
At age 62, I am still performing on a high level just as I did at 47, at 27, 17, and 7 years of age. I'm still excelling at whatever I do. Out performing people half my age, showing them better ways to do a task.
Imagine, waking up without any recollection of what took place yesterday, it could have been a terrible day, it a terrific day. And it isn't present today.
So what happens when yesterday never happened, last week, last month and so on? Without a past you will not know that you exist.
It is in this state that you live in the true state of being a human being. In essence you are living as all species lives in Earth. It is through this state that without trying, without thinking, situations provokes your brain to bring out whatever hidden ability you have to tend to that situation.
This is the Mushin state.
This philosophy >>
I could listen to Bob Sapolsky for hours….and I do: Stanford’s CZcams has many of his lectures available. :)
Amazingly well-explained! So, important to know this
Thank you! it is very useful!
Mr. Sapolsky is a great teacher. Looking forward to more!
"Happy talking happy talk! Talk about things you'd like to do! You gotta have a dream! If you don't have a dream,, how you gonna have a dream come true? If you never talk happy, and you never have dream - how you gonna have a dream come true?" Rodgers and Hammerstein, "South Pacific".
Thank you, Mr Sapolsky!
That sums it all up. Thinking about something does affect our physical conditions.
Prof. Sapolsky, definitely a legend. So calm and so simple in presentation, yet so effective.
Clarity like a crystal, calmness of a frozen lake. Divine being.
WAAAAY TOO IMPRESSED WITH HIMSELF!!
I honestly needed to hear this today. thank you.
Me too!
MissRiss he is my favorite educator. I have watched all his Stanford classes, all of his TedX and big think content, have his book and watched all his CZcams interviews. He is my teaching hero
Marissa Does Things s. 66
Very insightful observation.... It helps me a lot thanks
This guy really knows his stuff and explains it in layman's terms.
He’s reading prompts
@@Monkey80llx You should watch his lectures. There are no prompts there and he talks just as fluidly.
@@Monkey80llx your mom was reading prompts last night
layman's term is an oxymoron bc the word in itself is not simple
"First off I love his hair, remarkable.. Great youtube post!"
Thank you for this talk.
This explains so much about ehy my grandma has mood swings, her blood pressure is bad. Though she takes medicines on time, it sometimes overwhelms her.
Absolutely true 1000% true
This video is For those males in their 30s and under still searching their purpose in life
Are Mature in numbers but still act and think like a teenager and yet wondering why their life is spiraling downwards...
Can't focus cause your always too distracted...
Can't handle responsibilities or confrontations...
not knowing where to start or who to ask ...
This video allows you to understand your judgements of the outside world....
And helps you understand why you make certain desitions when your body is addicted to certain chems.... ( Pills,weed,Coke,etc)
Very helpful thank you
Please watch it may save your life
Moe. S good stuff
Wise words ! Last few lines are very helpful
Gotta get this guy's book. His short interview on JRE was really informative. This guy is great.
Never clicked so fast on a video before.
Disclaimer: currently watching Sapolsky's Stanford video lectures and reading "Behave" at the moment. The guy is straight up balls-to-the-wall amazing. If you have some spare time do either of these and you will not regret it!
MORE Robert Sapolsky PLEASE!!!
This is amazing, everyone interested in brain science should see this, I study neuroscience and I love leraning from Robert Sapolsky!
Wonderful explanation
Enjoy listening to him. I read his text, Behave. Nice book.
This is so important to know all these things. I happened to saw this video coz I was reading what great salesman do.
I will never cease to confirm my opinion about Gand... ehm mr Sapolsky... he is one of the greatest scientists in that field... a legend.
Hell yeah, even more Sapolsky!
Well Spoken.Thxs.,Merci.
This completely blowed my mind. So many posibilities
Thank you for educating me
Thanks Dr Sapolsky. I'm excited that I found a teacher of a complex subject with a great delivery. I enjoyed his lesson. Nice, I thought learning without political agenda was of the past. I may search for more. Anyone know if he's a professor (where) or surgeon or semi retired? Easy to learn from!
The last part about cognitive efforts to mitigate or handle physiological states is so stoicist. I find it even highly linked to the buddhist metaphor of the "second arrow", the worst suffering is caused by recursion between cognition and emotions after a painful event, if the cognition intervene in the good way, the suffering can be stop and left only with the initial pain. Yeah, cognition power baby !
this is brilliant thanks!
Epic explanation!
thanks for this
"think about something incredibly upsetting, some memory that was truly disturbing, think about mortality"
:(
"think about the happiest day of your life"
... :(
Sick morality
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for this excellent and understandable explanation, well done !
Concise and informative while also engaging
Thank you
“Thank you, Ancient Reptilian Brain.”
Thank you!
Very simple and to the point.
Kahuna, buddy. I gave my limbic system a name, it's my friend. I look out for it. We sit together at the fire. It's an amazing journey we are on for decades now. I highly recommend to find your very special friend.
I love his lectures. He is the best in his field.
Robert Sapolsky is absolutely brilliant. HIGHLY recommend his books "Monkey Luv" and "Why Zebras Get Ulcers"!
👍
Watching his massive lecture series on Stanfords channel. Have 2 of his books I'm crackin into.. that says a lot. I dont read much
I've seen so many of his lectures, love him!
His ability to simplify a complex system as the brain is outstanding.
Dr Robert Sapolsky is the GOAT!! (Greatest Of All Times)😎
Very helpful. Thanks.
spot on video, i loved it. there is one issue however, Im not sure if he's a physician or not, but in practice hypertensive patients usually receive treatment because dietary and lifestyle modification usually does not help, thats why we use anti-hypertensive drugs. of course this varies from one patient to another. what i mean is you cant always force your body to just be healthy, its a lot more complicated than that.
MORE Robert Sapolsky PLEASE!!!
One place you can listen to him is in at least one of the Zeitgeist 'movies'.
HIGHLY recommend his books "Monkey Luv" and "Why Zebras Get Ulcers"!
Very informative
Thank you so much! So, the emotional layer is in the middle? Always thought it's the deepest one.
Hima wari the instinctive layer is the deepest. On top of the instinctive layer is the emotive layer (emotions regulate instinct). On top of the emotive layer is the cognitive layer (thought regulates emotion).
@@Chadthefatherbear If you study
eastern mysticism you'll see
the limbic system is the seat
of the higher self because
it's astral/ emotional it's
a reflection of the monadic
and budhic planes. The
limbic system evolved
in past lives in the higher
animals because we
started families not
because of sex as a lot
western scientists
think. You can't control
your emotions with
logic alone.
Thank you.
Once upon a time in Bali, I observed geckos on a ceiling. They are communicating, intimidating, fighting for the hunting territory closer to lamps, making allies.
Looks quite emotional, even drammatic. And the fact that they are able to infer somehow that ceiling lamps a good spot for an ambush, looks even sort of intelligent.
I was thinking of Crows doing their death ritual. Definitely emotional.
Right now I'm blushing and feeling the goosebumps simply because I'm elated for the new knowledge 🥳
Thanks
honestly this is incredibly good video
Wow. I have learned so much, and I have learned something that made me think so much.
Excellent
This is exactly what I ve been thinking about today
He talks to me sarcastically as if I should already know this information and it really helps me understand it easier for some reason haha chill guy
What a synchronicity !!!
Last night I came to know about this from Zen Yoga book of P.J.Seher.
I think of the relationship between the cortex and the limbic system as being like a self driving car and driver.
In this case, the cortex being the AI and the limbic system the human driver.
If the limbic system trusts the AI to drive, it leaves it to get on with driving our lives. If it doesn't trust us then it takes back control and we end up in a fugue state, helplessly watching ourselves do something we know will just get us into trouble.
Adolescents who constantly get into stupid scrapes but can't explain why they do so, aren't being wilfully evasive when they grunt, 'I dunno'. They really don't know why they did it, they were locked out of the system and had no control because the limbic system had taken back control.
The limbic system will only trust us to drive if we can demonstrate we can deliver what it wants. As what it wants basically comes down to sex and power, we need to get this right.
Puberty for example, the limbic system says, 'Great! Let's bash a woman over the head with a rock and get ourselves laid!'
Good scenario is that at this point our cortex steps in and says, 'Whoa! Slow down. I have a plan. It involves graduating, getting an income and a girlfriend etc'.
While those unfortunate young men who's limbic system doesn't trust them to deliver, because they've been constantly told they aren't good enough for example, end up with disastrous lives as their limbic system drives in a straight line towards everything it wants. Scattering us pedestrians like skittles until it's forcibly stopped.
We need to understand that if we're to help juveniles mature into responsible adults rather than become recidivist criminals.
Very good!
excellent
Fantastic. Only recommendation is please include images and diagrams of the brain while Robert Sapolsky is speaking. Thanks.
That would have made it even better! You’re absolutely correct.
It's science for everyone! Thanks Big think!
best youtube channel I've found lately
Brilliant.
Amazing I tried the thoughts and it worked👽🥁🛸the brain is amazing
QED 👍. Literally a decade of watching all kinds of videos from philosophy, to quantum mechanics, to heart brain coherence to ___(name it) and he explains it ALL in under 8 minutes!