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

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