David Brooks: The social animal
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- Опубліковано 13 бер 2011
- www.ted.com Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based on their conscious awareness.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/translate. - Наука та технологія
This is by far one of the best TED talks I have ever seen.
I find this really interesting!! I love the part about how we are all seeking to become one with things.
Wow, really great talk. Very grounded but soulful at the same time.
One of the best TEDtalks ever!
This is the kind of talk that made me suscribe to TED. thanks.
one of the best speeches of this great channel
What a surprisingly insightful TED talk.
I'm not sure you'll ever find an 'expert' who integrates all the data into one big picture. DB seems well informed and he speaks from his own experience.
His content about emotions and their relationship to thinking is very intriguing.
He just came out with a new book The Second Mountain, along these lines. Can’t wait to read it
Good talk!
This reminds me of some of what we are studying (and living into ) at context.org Some overlap at least, I loved this talk.
Great Techniques. Good Video.
Terrific talk!
I liked the stuff he said in the second half, it was more thought provoking & made a lot of good points.
this talk really hit home with me. now my soul hurts. sigh.
@FreestyleBrain
Go with your gut, but don't be afraid to sit back and reflect on activities/experiences you've had in the past that you enjoyed. I was initially going to go engineering, but then I went Kinesiology. I wound up leaving that after doing 1.5 years, taking a couple years off of school, teaching myself programming, and going back in computer science. I've now finished creating a small game and am working on a very cool project with people I know.
I'm happy with my choices.
Beautiful.
Very interesting....!
Very well done tedtalk.
holy shit that was good. I'm going to watch this several times tonight
david brooks inspires me. he all hamiltonian and reinhold niebuhr. rock on sir.
interestingly, my mum and I had a conversation similar to this talk about how we measure success a few days ago
My name is Bart, and I love art.
David described The Bay Area neighborhoods.
What article about Iraq soldiers is speaking in minute 14:10 ?
@BestestMoron just something new and/or insightful.
Brooks wrote an excellent book. I wish he would done more character development on his female protagonist.
2 minutes into the movie and I want to fix the back of his blazer sooo bad
I know, talk about social skills...
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If that's what you got out of Brooks' talk, I think you missed the point.
how epic!
@audiowiz It's super loud, like the old THX intro. watch?v=K3_HHZFi0As
@sausage4mash Some of those acts were rational plays on the irrational emotions. I think the point of the talk is that we cannot really separate ration and emotion as we have been taught to, but that the two are bound together, much like the conscious and unconscious.
That's the stuff.
@DonAnonimus It's the part where he talks about the soldiers detecting "coldness" where there were landmines... but I'm willing to bet that "coldness" just means "empty."
I wouldn't hang around a land mine I just planted, would you?
@FreestyleBrain Go with your heart. If you go down a path in conflict with your "calling" you'll lose your life. On a practical note, out of the gate you may get a bigger paycheck in mechanical engineering but over the next 10 years that will fade as you lose out to those in engineering who have the passion. But if you follow your heart you'll end up finding a place where those skills are valued more and you'll be the one with passion which should make you some decent money in almost any field.
interesting ideas but very general, i guess he didnt have time to get too specific , i'm gonna check out the book . i think we should come up with a better name than new humanism
@Xiang Zhang He does (at 9:45) that him talking about emotion is like ghandi talking about gluttony...
One man with courage makes a majority.
@ACANOFSODA
Can you provide an example of a counter-argument debunking something he said?
When they finally do, that decision can be vetoed, challenge by congress or slowed down through bureaucracy. Moral values are often discouraged in foreign policy due to potential conflict that can elevate through the effort of securing interest, especially when promises have been broken. Therefore, the human experience of a good life is forever shrinking as conflict across the globe continues. Sorry there’s no happy ending…peoplebreeze com
First great TED Talk in months. Though this person seems to assume intelligence and social intelligence are not related. In Psychology (and Neuroscience), we presume this is the case. (g + i)
@xNickTheBrickx You are very polite to call them "jokes"
1:12. Pull them drawers up buddy!
@audiowiz Indeed. "AARGH the intro!" -turn the volume down - "mumblemumblemumble"
Closing also
BEST SPEECH THIS WEEK. THE PART ABOUT THE SUBCONSCIOUS WAS THE SHIT!!!
Yes, some of the TED talks are slipping, that I agree with.
@bogdanbelcea Because you can't help it, and had better learn to work with yourself rather than against. Everybody feels emotional attachment to the ideas they espouse; if you admit that, you can look more closely at ideas, and compensate for your attachment to some extent. Or were you wondering about the evolutionary advantage of such a seemingly flawed system? That would be an interesting question to ask.
@audiowiz yeah ive complained about it too, they don't care if it hurt's peoples ears and is very annoying.
I like David Brooks. He is thoughtful and he seems considerate and kind.
However, as a Scot, I am not sure that the relation between sentiment and reason attributed to David Hume is entirely correct. It may be, I am no scholar on the matter, however, from the little that I know, I understand Hume's view to be that that the "passions" should govern that, over which, one should apply one's "reason", rather than the notion that one's passion and reason are somehow opposed.
Anyway, since I am obviously not a philosopher, and as I have also, in all probability, made several logical fallacies, please go easy on me!
By all means tell me more about Hume and why my scant knowledge of him is inaccurate!
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I really enjoyed the talk, but I almost gave up on it because it takes him almost 9 minutes to get to the crux of his argument.
@audiowiz ...or at least turn it down a few notches,,....,.,,,
@ElProximo yes
mindblowing insight. only we now need see our subconsciousness as the universe expressing itself through us. In chinese medine water reads of (holds) the emotions. emotions speak of feelings, and feelings are the language of the soul. and the soul is the cosmic expression and manifestion of consciousness . . .through which the universe expresses itself in matter
@bogdanbelcea Suggesting that someone may be wrong is not an argument.
lost me on the Hofstadter panpsychism, but a "new humanism" is definitely something that's beginning to take form and should
Featuring the bourgeoisie humor of David Brooks, who apparently only read Sociobiology last year or so.
"A disproportionate number of Dennis's become Dentists and Lawrences Laywers."
I'd like to see the data on such an extraordinary claim.
@mikaelfodor If you didn't learn anything it is because you failed to be open enough to learn; because it was against your own prejudices to allow yourself to learn. It is impossible not to learn, for familiarity isn't absolute truth, for there is nothing in this world that you completely know, including yourself .I can learn something by looking at something I've seen a thousand times before, I can learn by staring at the back of my hand. Really, learn to learn, set yourself free.
@gunuin Exactly.
lol the point *whooosh* that's the sound as it went over your head
@fabiochrist "Your wrong" & "I've heard that before", are not arguments.
@audiowiz yeh, there is something creepy in that sound!
For more on how we are children of the French Enlightenment, read "Voltaire's Bastards" by the greatest Canadian philosopher of our age, John Ralston Saul.
who would have thought dane cook would be doing a TEDtalk. hahah am i right. am i right!
does a doctor need to have cancer to be able to diagnose cancer?
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Foreign Policy is driven by economic means, often pressured by interest group. The choices that are available in foreign policy are greatly influenced by profit and security. Foreign policy evaluates corporate interest with government capabilities in relation to public concerns. Politicians are not philosophers; they often do not look at the overall consequence of their action. peoplebreeze com
This dude is all over the place...I felt like I was listening to Charlie Sheen.
David, please stand for President, we need you.
Agreed. If only....
a great book that brook wrote, but his speech is with the same tune as if he disconnects with his emotion when saying emotion is important. His voice trembles perhaps he was nervous, but a very humble man indeed
Xiang Zhang, to your point, I actually think he isn’t a natural speaker and is quite nervous. Which makes his commitment to speaking all the more interesting for me
He is a person that is traveling territory that is new for him, emotion. If you take the path, wisdom path is to have bravery to explore your emotional life. Tremble in that path is natural.
I need someone to remind me about the subconscious mind gets satisfaction from love.
This person has never met Dutch politicians before. ;)
David Brooks... and he writes books...
Coming from somebody who applied to Harvard last year and sincerely wanted to get in in order to be surrounded by interesting, intellectual people (not just to get a good job) but was rejected...ouch. Don't stereotype. :-/ We're just trying to work the system, man, and if that means we have to play a musical instrument AND do community service AND take a bazillion APs...that's what we'll do.
Working leads to money, it gets blown on nightclubs, you go back to work Monday and the cycle repeats itself
@sixtiksix An idiot is an individual who is pre-cognizant, they literally have no ability to think or formulate thoughts. Though I could translate your comment as such, once he started challenging my own beliefs the cognitive dissonance made me uncomfortable, and instead of being able or willing to see things in a different way, I put up my walls and dismissed him with a word that is hardly descriptive. It's okay to be scared, we are all scared.
@Terje1337 yep.....again......
After the Vatican could just get rid of purgatory then it should be clear how tangible of a place heaven or hell is. That is if you define a real place as a physical space but I don’t think many Christians believe if you fly a space ship somewhere far enough you can find heaven. It doesn’t exist in the sense you or a literalist are speaking but as a parallel to Buddhist ideas I think that those planes of existence could be just as real as this one.
@bogdanbelcea Albert Einstein rejected Quantum physics on essentially emotional grounds, believing that "god would not play dice with the universe." He was wrong, but the story shows a hugely influential modern genius, unabashedly relying on intuition and non-rational thought. So many great ideas, modern and ancient, came not from logical progression, but in a flash of intuition, later confirmed by careful research. Both intuition and research have their place.
well, I think he was saying decision makers should show a little more empathy and compassion but then he was also saying bad decisions are emotionally biased ? so whatever a confused meandering convoluted speech that seems to be the new TED style . It will be" feeling our inner child next ", or have we had that speech already :) well at least it was not the vacuous emotive twaddle that is TED women ,almost on a par though .
@Haduct - meh...it's ok.
Why is he reading a speech when all other TED presenters do it without one?
Really?
Because journalists can communicate.
I wish people would pay more attention to what someone does instead of what someone says.
Is it my lack of knowledge of American politics or did he in deed only mention right-wings?
You are correct. TedTalks can often (notice I didn't say always) have some type of left wing message or bias. However, other times, the right-wing is represented. Unfortunately, in the U.S. (at least) people can be so vulcanized by their politics, that they can make an argument about gravity between liberal gravity and conservative gravity... America, America, God shed his grace on thee...
This comment = gold.
@ACANOFSODA I guess the whole point was for you to FEEL he was right! :-p
Well, that's truthiness for ya! Not that he's wrong, neither that he's right.
@TheRealYaar you sure?
@apocaRUFF totally caught that bomb on the porn joke too lol
Blah, blah, blah.......The future is brighter than I thought.
That is the entire show. Don't waste 18 mins of your time.
Sounds like an appeal to Pathos to me.
Sounds like this guy is talking about theory of mind and emergent systems theory. Maybe if we standardized the language we could fix society faster.
Alright presentation, but does anyone else feel the guy is jumping into new-age woo-woo territory a bit?
Interesting subject. I always thought david brooks was one of the smarter republicans.
He's brilliant. Moderate. The older I get, the more moderate I become. He's one of my favorite journalists and authors.
Picked an interesting topic and managed to say nothing of any worth, I didn't learn anything from that.
Great talk, though the digression with the jokes gets a little bit annoying...
@TruthJockey In my opinion for a Christian that practices their religion appropriately fear is not the motivation to do things, when you act out of fear you distance yourself from the lord and it is acting out of love that brings you closer. So rather than the fear of hell being the incentive to do good works it is the love of the Lord and is will.
David Brook calls Edward Snowden a delusional individual, but the NSA paid Snowden $200,000 a year.
David Brook is aiding Big Brother.
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