Robert Sapolsky’s Edutaining “Human Behavioral Biology”
http://blog.cjfearnley.com/2019/04/10/robert-sapolskys-edutaining-human-behavioral-biology/
In this essay I review an important free video course and I highlight three big takeaways from the course: the dangers of categorial thinking, the gene-environment interaction, and understanding and using complex systems thinking to better understand human behavior.
The bulk of the essay organizes my detailed notes on the videos and the group explorations I organized on topics from the course. You should skim this part unless you are ready for a deep dive (it is a huge amount of material!).
The essay concludes by requesting your feedback on my effort.
Is it a good guide for edutainment?
How could or should I improve on enhancing a course like Sapolsky's?
How can this effort and efforts like it help address the crisis of ignorance that is rampant in our civilization?
Please let me know what you think of this essay/review.
-- "The subjective and objective always and only coexist and therewith demonstrate the inherent plurality of unity: inseparable union." R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics 1013.16 http://synergetics.info/s10/p1230.html#1013.16
CJ Fearnley | "Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller cjf@CJFearnley.com | http://blog.CJFearnley.com http://www.CJFearnley.com | http://blog.RemoteResponder.net
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