Mark, I can see from your videos. you have never been a follower, but always followed your own path, you let your intuition and insight, your core knowledge, guide and direct your life. A most respectable trait in humans. Thank you for your presentations, your revelations, and your humanity. I spent a year in Russia and know what you say is so. Slava Ukraini!
Love it, Mark. Thank you for bringing your unique and informed opinion to the topics that you discuss. The synthesis of economics, theory, philosophy, and history is so cool!
That is not true. Hungry is number 1 and Russia number 2. I do not see it here, but I see it in Russia. People here are pretty healthy looking.in Poland and the rates for 2024 are way down the list.
@@EconLessons I would trust you on Poland, but how do you "see" it in Russia if you are not in Russia (and most likely haven't been to Russia, say, past 2007)? I haven't checked WHO numbers in the past 5 years or so, but I do remember Poland having higher per-capita consumption back in 19 or 18. If you give a link to the most recent numbers - that would be great.
@@AllmedialabNl excellent, thank you! According to WHO '19 data linked in that article, per capita consumption in Ru was 10.4 liters (same as in Portugal), and in Poland in was 11.6 liters. So? According to the same report (published in 2024, with data from 2019), Hungary's number is 10.6 liters, while Romania had 17 (this addresses Mark's claim of Hungary as "number 1" and Russia as "number 2"... Poland's 11,6 doesn't make it anywhere close to the "bottom of the list"). Again, those numbers, taken in isolation, don't mean much - I just find it funny when people use them to prove some point and can't even look up the correct numbers in the first place.
Good morning Msrk. Great analogy of the war in Ukraine woth your incident at St Petersburg. It's criminal the RuSS police didn't investigate a criminal act of a RuSS against a foreigner. It shows the general uncivilisedness of that society. Keep well and Slava Ukraine.
I think it would have been more useful to develop a thought of your own and put it into 3 or 4 reasonable sentences, rather than reapeting the usual obtrusive and meaningless gushing...
Great talk Mark!. Regarding hunter-gatherer populations, I believe they were predominantly settled near to coastal areas, partly due to the ease of gathering protein rich foods from the shoreline. And of course, shellfish is naturally high in iodine.
Enjoy listening to you Mark. I wish Americans would have Polands mindset on supporting Ukraine. Trump if elected and the Supreme Court here would like that along with this fascist Republican Party! Trump would end the war alright, he already said Russia do what ever the hell you want. I despise him. Anyway thank you Mark. ☮️ & ❤️ Mark!
Это НАТО делает что хочет через терориста-Украину переходя красные линии вопреки всем договорам требует нефть, газ почти бесплатно Россия обороняется от расположения НАТО у самых границ
Yes - but the interesting thing I why the US society took that direction and how it can be reversed and who orchestrated the transformation as they must be sanctioned even if they are very very rich.
Hi Mark, thanks for a very informative video - as always. I just watched the first minutes of Lavrov's speech at the UN yesterday, and he said, among other things, that several things had to be done for the UN to function, i.a. he referred to the right of peoples to be free from war and mentioned the US invasion of Iraq in 2002. I had to turn him off. What about Russia's invasion of Ukraine - it all seems completely hopeless.
There’s no hope for Russia with leaders like Putin and Lawrow. 😢people always talk about the global elites, without recognizing that there’s many Russians being part of this elite, having tight connections to western elites and influencing our societies enormously 😢
There’s no hope for Russia with leaders like Putin and Lawrow. 😢people always talk about the global elites, without recognizing that there’s many Russians being part of this elite, having tight connections to western elites and influencing our societies enormously 😢
I like how you bring solutions. The Darkness in Social Media and developing a positive Collective Unconsciousness of light may be the battle of our lifetime
I enjoy your talks because you know how to think. I agree with you about skepticism. One of my credos in life is: Question everything, especially yourself. I’ve been a habitual reader for over 50 year. I have read (not studied) most of Campbell’s work and some Jung. Up to a point, I suspect that there is validity to the idea of a collective unconscious. Let me offer a somewhat different perspective. The collective unconscious might be a metaphor for something a bit more tangible that allows for, perhaps, a more tangible solution. The solution may take centuries, but it needs to be introduced to the Culture, or as I would say, the Collective Conscious. The problem might be that people do not know how to think. I suggest that one of the functions of the brain is to make logical sense of our perceptions/reality. If we allow our brain to accept “false” information as “truth”, our brain creates a reality to accommodate this “false” information. As the “false” information piles up, you can imagine the twisted and distorted views of “reality” people have. The short answer to the solution is a radical change to the educations system so that we teach people how to think. Learning how to think is not easy to say the least. And everyone from the academia to basically all the powers that be would likely fight it tooth and nail. I do not think that the essence/ethos/whatever of humanity has significantly changed since…? Part of the “solution” needs to be the long game. Respectfully David
Hi Mark, thank you very much for your videos. I fully agree with your message given my recent meeting and conversations I had with a Russian GP who has lives in Belgium for twenty years.
The problem with the agricultural theory is that the brain-shrinking has probably been happening since much earlier (100kyBP) than the agrarian revolution. The one guy (J. DeSilva, an anthropologist at Dartmouth College in the US) who proposed the starting point at 3 kyBP has changed his estimates to between 20 kyBP 5 kyBP. Maybe our brains just became more efficient with less need for brain cells to do the same work.
Great presentation, thank you. Sadly the Russian people of Russia are lost souls after over 100 years of never rejecting totalitarian rule under Stalin/Lenin. This deficit of human empathy in Russia goes back to it's earliest day's, the beginning of their history as a people, a nation, an empire builder. I do not forsee a any change because they can't imagine free will, democracy and only understand being subservient to an all powerful leader.
I very much enjoy your broad views on things and your general positive attitude. Always looking forward to the next video. Keep on doing the stuff you are doing, please continue with your mission. I enjoy your thoughts and discourse.
Dear Mark another thought provoking video. Can I recommend you to listen to a recent BBC Radio 4 programme. "The Food Programme", hosted by a lassie called Sheila Dillon, 27 Sep edition. A great discussion on food and how it affects health, especially mental health. Great contributions from Kimberly Wilson , author of "Unprocessed: How The Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis". With contributions from Dr Ally Jaffee, famous chef Heston Blumenthal and educationalist and school dinner advocate Natilie Hackett. One point mentioned during the discussion was that about 25% of all the calories we eat are consumed by the brain. I'm sure you will enjoy listening to this programme. Your broadcast today puts the spotlight on moral behaviour, be it individual or collective. I really enjoy your fresh insights into topics rarely discussed in other forums. Keep up the good work.
I'm sure Sheila would be delighted to be thought of as a lassie. 🙂 There's many a gem on R4. I usually have it on as my audio wallpaper. I didn't catch that episode so giving a listen now on iplayer. A subject of interest to me is the gut microbiome which also has brain developmental implications amongst others.
Hey Mark - as always your point of view is fresh and insightful. Thanks for putting these ideas out there.... yeah, people everywhere need to choose sides, and yeah we have a moral obligation to help those being beat up by psychos and nutters. We have a duty to lead the latter out of darkness too. There are a very few who are beyond redemption, but all deserve some chances to change.
@@adamk.7177 I think you didn’t get it..?! 😜 it was kind of word game… there’s not enough people intelligent enough to understand what he says. That’s why he can’t get really many followers
My - German - grandmother always used to say: leave thinking to the cows - they have bigger heads 😂 She used that when somebody did something wrong and was arguing with: but I thought…😅
My theory regarding the recent decrease in brain size is that it is due to the ability to think abstractly. When you think abstractly, you don't need to think about specific instances as much. Abstract thinking allow the brain to be more efficient. I have met people who struggle to think abstractly. In my experience, those people struggle to function in our society.
I always enjoy your videos, but this one was a bit different. I enjoyed the interesting snippets of information combined with simple moral principles. The morality seems so obvious, and yet, here we are, with millions not 'getting it'. Keep up the good work in spreading your dogma-free, common sense observations, as we all should be doing.
From my philosophical position I would argue with late Wittgenstein, and add, that collective unconsciousness is a concept that just summs up many aspects like cultural habits and stories , but is not necessary and even not a scientific view onto the world. From my biological position, it is obvious, that brain size does not correlate to intelligence in the ranges, we are talking about here, either. The complexity in the brain is reached by interactions on so many levels, that I could write a whole book to match it at least a bit. Size is only one factor besides at last 7 further ones that do fall into my mind spontaneously. I will not explain them further, dropping them in a short way is only thought to be a hint at what kind of complexity on different levels I refer to: Increase in surface area due to the variety and type of folds, general type and structure of the network, partitioning and interconnectivity throughout the network, division of labor in the compartiments, interacting cell types and cell fuctions (Neurons, Glia, but also excitatory and inhibitory nerve cell types etc), genetics as the fundamental base - but only in interaction with the environment of an individual - which again matches the cultural aspects mentioned further above and also including nutrition, interactions of neurohormons together with the hormone system of the body in general and throughout the network, .. I´ll stop here, because, I think it will be enough to see, which points I wanted to make. Depth psychology on the other hand, that developed 100 years ago and in parallel to classical modern psychology, reminds me more a bit of those "theories" of homeopathy, that have developed in parallel to and in the early stages of the development of modern medicine, 200 years ago. I am a Neuroscientist, Biologist and have studied Philosophy (especially Philosophy of language and Philosophy of science) in parallel. Greetings from Nuremberg, Germany - and Slava Ukraini
Thanks for an interesting start to Sunday. Over the years I have realised their is one key rule to life - There is no free Lunch. And one approach to life - everything we do is based on assumptions about fact not the facts themselves because they are often to complex to interpret in real time or for many, to research. So always keep checking your assumptions (doubt your doubts) and keep looking for the actual price of your actions. Russians could do well to apply both to their thinking because Putin's war on Ukraine is clearly built on false assumptions and demonstrably isn't free. Jacob Bronowski and his seminal TV series The ascent of Man come highly recommended. A little slow by modern standards but also by modern standards an amazingly dense assembly of Thought and Reasoning and still incredibly relevant. From the same era as the equally seminal Cosmos by Carl Sagan - back when TV was more than reality TV. In the same genre I would recommend Kenneth Clarke's Civilisation. All or parts of them can be tracked down here on RUclips.
Thanks for yet another interesting video. When talking about the collective unconsciousness it is easy to be misled by the reification fallacy. Also, it is important to understand that Russian’s and their ethics cannot be measured or understood from the standpoint of Western, liberal, humanistic values. The Russian Soul has been forged for 500 years. It is at its core characterised by the unbridled desire to cause pain and lie. The only moral codex they subscribe to is “might make right”. Notions such as human rights and equal value, cannot be intelligibly conceived by the Russian mind. We have to understand that concepts such as ”good" and "bad" has completely different denotations for a Russian than for the rest of Mankind. This is a people that prioritise suffering before anything else, and then brag about it.
0:58 „if you can’t doubt everything than even your doubts should have doubts. Then this should be the starting point for truth.“ Could you explain me this sentence? Do you mean that a person is then overloaded with questioning everything that it is time to act and search for truth? Thanks in advance ✌🏻
Doubt is perfectly healthy. Fear and criticism of doubt is not. Scepticism has often led to the truth where doubt was feared. Suppression of doubt has all too often led to a severe lack of love.
9:29 Jakob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man" is available as an excellent BBC short series on RUclips. If you want a recommendation, Sir David Attenborough credited Bronowski, his then-boss, as his inspiration.
A connecting aspect: If there is an overall human (sub)consciousness, being neutral equates to abandoning the collective responsibility of that consciousness. More starkly phrased: How "human" are you when you opt to look away? We can say: alright, then maybe there is a collective conscious per state and interests of the state and the collective are therefor 1) co-aligned 😂 and 2) indipendent from other states and collectives. These 2 points are obviously false but narratives in isolationalist / nationalist circles desperately try to make the case .. Thanks for your videos btw. Sometimes a bit hard to follow but I feel inspiration and hope through you from time to time.
Hunter gatherers individually were smarter than human's today, but also more much more aggressive and living in small-isolated tribes. Human society today is infinitely larger, delegates functions to groups, creating an infinitely smarter, less fragile, superorganism.
What you say about neutrality is always is on the side of the agressor has direct economic consequences. Switzerland's armament industry is starting to feel the negative consequences of being neutral in the Ukraine conflict as most of their contracts are coming to term and not being renewed.
Marks says, "Collective Unconscious" and I think, "Archetype." At my advancing age I look to AI: Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious implies archetypal behavior: Collective unconscious The collective unconscious is a part of the mind that contains inherited memories and impulses that are common to all humans. It's distinct from the personal unconscious, which comes from an individual's experiences. Archetypes Archetypes are universal ideas and behavior patterns that are created by shared memories in the collective unconscious. They can be expressed as symbols, signs, or patterns of thinking. Some examples of archetypes include the hero, the anima, the persona, the shadow, and the trickster. Archetypal behavior Archetypal behavior is a pattern of behavior that activates in response to certain situations. Archetypes can influence a person's feelings and actions, and they often don't follow cultural rules or traditions. Examples of archetypal behavior Archetypal behavior can be expressed in dreams, visions, myths, and fairytales. For example, the anima image is thought to be active in childhood, where it projects superhuman qualities onto the mother. Jung used his theory of the collective unconscious to explain how social phobias and fears can manifest in people without an obvious reason. He also believed that dreams compensate for parts of the psyche that aren't fully developed during waking life. - Search Labs AI
That's an interesting take. Just a brief intro : I read a lot of Jung's books since I was very interested in that notion of a collective unconscious. I also read a lot about symbolism, like tarot cards and the like. Nothing like occult B.S. I also am a hardcore skeptic. And I know for a fact that human beings ability for non-verbal communication is MUCH higher than most people suspect, to the point that it feels like telepathy. Once again, nothing supernatural in this, it only works when you're in the physical presence of the other party. And it's not conscious. It's probably a relic of our time as hunters, like how wolves can act as a pack without language. You posit that the collective unconscious is somehow stored in the social fabric, which is rather different than what Jung was driving at, I.E that all humans have a deep layer of symbols and archetypes that we all share somehow. But then again, Jung didn't really try to determine if that was present in our brains or in our society... The idea that that deep layer of archetypal concepts would be stored in the social fabric, probably largely relying on this subconscious, non-verbal communication, is quite interesting. But it has some very positive and also very frightening implications. The collective unconscious does not only have positive archetypes, like the solar hero. It also has very dark figures and symbols. What do you do when a society is seized by such dark figures ? How do you get back to the light ? How do you consider the people that are in such a grip ? And what of the responsibility of those that drive such a dark descent ? How do you reconcile that with free speech ? I'll try to think of that. Anyways, thanks for the message, it opens a very interesting train of thought.
Dictatorships by their nature historically tend to be paranoid and/or empire building bullies. Democracies tend to be economic predators rather than war mongers.
There haven't been too many anti war protests in the west either. Iraq , libia, Yemen, Syria and now gaza. All of which the public have been largely indifferent to
Our computers have shrunk a billion times since the 1940s, while becoming a trillion times faster. Something similar could have had happen to our brains too, which would be only logical because the more you use a given organ, the more competent it will become. And the russians have yet to learn to use their cortex
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. Isaiah 29:20-21, God's AV1611 Holy Scriptures
Sir, you have a good foundation in philosophy but I wish you brought with you a more solid foundation in Russian history. From the Tsar to Commies and Authoritarian there are some lessons there about the Russian people
Russians consider this war the only way to stop nato advancing closer to their borders, and also the only way to stop Ukraine attacking ethnic Russians in the Donbas, assuming they lose which they won’t they won’t feel any guilt, even with those sanctions.
I love Jung, Campbell, and even Bronowski. However, most people think they are dated or woo-woo today. Robert Sapolsky is another matter, even though he focuses on physical evolution not the development of ideas and cultures. He points out how tribalism is in our brains, as it were. How culture evolved symbiotically with our biology and now the power of culture is so immense he posits we don’t even have free will-a contested conclusion. ruclips.net/video/ke8oFS8-fBk/видео.html Assuming we are knowingly creating our societal structures. The beauty of Canada and America is that our systems attempt to establish countries free of racism; the evolved biological tendency to group people into “one of us” and “the other.” We aren’t doing very well. But we are doing better than any other country in the world today. There is hope for Russia. But not until their culture is redefined.
I enjoy your thought-provoking presentations. However, as a retired experimental physicist, I am aware of several forces, which while invisible, produce visibly observable effects. Furthermore, as a parent and keen observer of human behavior, I am aware that (invisible) beliefs significantly influence (invisible) thinking, choices, and emotions, which become visible through observable behaviors. Accordingly. it is easier and simpler to "understand" Russian behavior through culture or indoctrination-transmission of beliefs, than by invoking arguable theoretical constructs such as "collective unconsciousness". Furthermore, since the most careful carbon-14 measurements of the deepest diamonds and anthracite coal reveal that the earth is
Collective unconsciousness or cultural transmission net net it is the same. I like the literary mythological explanations as they speak to the stratification of the reality the human brains works in, but I do love physics also.
Mark, I can see from your videos. you have never been a follower, but always followed your own path, you let your intuition and insight, your core knowledge, guide and direct your life. A most respectable trait in humans. Thank you for your presentations, your revelations, and your humanity. I spent a year in Russia and know what you say is so. Slava Ukraini!
🌻🇺🇦Героям слава!!🇺🇦🌻
Love it, Mark. Thank you for bringing your unique and informed opinion to the topics that you discuss. The synthesis of economics, theory, philosophy, and history is so cool!
Thank you Benjamin.
I second that. You stated it perfectly.
@@williammasselink he did and does in all his videos
@@geoffgill5334 Nobody does it better.
Agreed. This is genuinely a very thought-provoking and unique channel.
Thank you very much for this video!!
Great video! Don't forget the alcohol part in Russia and what it does to the brain!😊
According to World Health Org, alcohol consumption in Poland is higher than that in Russia. Do you think it did something to Mark's brain?
That is not true. Hungry is number 1 and Russia number 2. I do not see it here, but I see it in Russia. People here are pretty healthy looking.in Poland and the rates for 2024 are way down the list.
@@EconLessons I would trust you on Poland, but how do you "see" it in Russia if you are not in Russia (and most likely haven't been to Russia, say, past 2007)?
I haven't checked WHO numbers in the past 5 years or so, but I do remember Poland having higher per-capita consumption back in 19 or 18. If you give a link to the most recent numbers - that would be great.
@@knopkaplay0507 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_in_Russia
@@AllmedialabNl excellent, thank you! According to WHO '19 data linked in that article, per capita consumption in Ru was 10.4 liters (same as in Portugal), and in Poland in was 11.6 liters. So?
According to the same report (published in 2024, with data from 2019), Hungary's number is 10.6 liters, while Romania had 17 (this addresses Mark's claim of Hungary as "number 1" and Russia as "number 2"... Poland's 11,6 doesn't make it anywhere close to the "bottom of the list").
Again, those numbers, taken in isolation, don't mean much - I just find it funny when people use them to prove some point and can't even look up the correct numbers in the first place.
You're a good man, Mark. On the side of light, as we are all called and obligated to be.
Good morning Msrk. Great analogy of the war in Ukraine woth your incident at St Petersburg. It's criminal the RuSS police didn't investigate a criminal act of a RuSS against a foreigner. It shows the general uncivilisedness of that society.
Keep well and Slava Ukraine.
Thank you Mark ,
as an intelectual you should always question
what's true and what is false
You are a true breath of fresh air Mark, a wonderful human being . Love you channel 💚
Thank you Mark, really enjoy your content and its widening of my perceptions and education. Thanks again
Thanks Mark - appreciate you taking the time to create these amazing, thought provoking videos. Thumbs up!
I think it would have been more useful to develop a thought of your own and put it into 3 or 4 reasonable sentences, rather than reapeting the usual obtrusive and meaningless gushing...
Great talk Mark!. Regarding hunter-gatherer populations, I believe they were predominantly settled near to coastal areas, partly due to the ease of gathering protein rich foods from the shoreline. And of course, shellfish is naturally high in iodine.
Excellent video.
Thank you Steve.
Agreed
Very interesting topic again. Thank you!
Good episode. Agreed that we need to step up and stop the bully each in our own way.
Enjoy listening to you Mark. I wish Americans would have Polands mindset on supporting Ukraine. Trump if elected and the Supreme Court here would like that along with this fascist Republican Party! Trump would end the war alright, he already said Russia do what ever the hell you want. I despise him. Anyway thank you Mark. ☮️ & ❤️ Mark!
Trump won't be elected.
Это НАТО делает что хочет через терориста-Украину переходя красные линии вопреки всем договорам требует нефть, газ почти бесплатно Россия обороняется от расположения НАТО у самых границ
Yes - but the interesting thing I why the US society took that direction and how it can be reversed and who orchestrated the transformation as they must be sanctioned even if they are very very rich.
Many Americans do support Ukraine. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
@@bjrnhjjakobsen2174You better go back in time and sanction Newt Gingrich and Rupert Murdoch.
Very thought-provoking episode and universal truths.
I love stories about strangers helping strangers. It reminds me that people are generally good.
Thank you, Strength and love.
Thanks.
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Love from Cumbria
Fantastic (as always) 🎉🎉🎉🎉
very well said sir!
Hey I'm the 3rd person to watch the video Very cool For me.
Thank you Scott, its morning here.
Hi Mark, thanks for a very informative video - as always. I just watched the first minutes of Lavrov's speech at the UN yesterday, and he said, among other things, that several things had to be done for the UN to function, i.a. he referred to the right of peoples to be free from war and mentioned the US invasion of Iraq in 2002. I had to turn him off. What about Russia's invasion of Ukraine - it all seems completely hopeless.
I couldn't bring myself to watch it. Maybe I'll try later.
There’s no hope for Russia with leaders like Putin and Lawrow. 😢people always talk about the global elites, without recognizing that there’s many Russians being part of this elite, having tight connections to western elites and influencing our societies enormously 😢
There’s no hope for Russia with leaders like Putin and Lawrow. 😢people always talk about the global elites, without recognizing that there’s many Russians being part of this elite, having tight connections to western elites and influencing our societies enormously 😢
If you're going to try to watch a russian official making a speech, better have anti-nausea medicine handy
@@ruckfuzzia247 You said it. And probably something quite a bit stronger.
Love your work Mark, great to see powerful intellect doing good.
I like how you bring solutions. The Darkness in Social Media and developing a positive Collective Unconsciousness of light may be the battle of our lifetime
"We need to reach down and touch people." I will never forget that part from The Accent of Man.
Thank you for making this loud and clear! United for justice peace!❤💙💛❤!
Excellent food for thought!
Thank you Mark! 👍❤
I enjoy your talks because you know how to think. I agree with you about skepticism. One of my credos in life is: Question everything, especially yourself. I’ve been a habitual reader for over 50 year. I have read (not studied) most of Campbell’s work and some Jung.
Up to a point, I suspect that there is validity to the idea of a collective unconscious. Let me offer a somewhat different perspective. The collective unconscious might be a metaphor for something a bit more tangible that allows for, perhaps, a more tangible solution. The solution may take centuries, but it needs to be introduced to the Culture, or as I would say, the Collective Conscious.
The problem might be that people do not know how to think. I suggest that one of the functions of the brain is to make logical sense of our perceptions/reality. If we allow our brain to accept “false” information as “truth”, our brain creates a reality to accommodate this “false” information. As the “false” information piles up, you can imagine the twisted and distorted views of “reality” people have.
The short answer to the solution is a radical change to the educations system so that we teach people how to think. Learning how to think is not easy to say the least. And everyone from the academia to basically all the powers that be would likely fight it tooth and nail.
I do not think that the essence/ethos/whatever of humanity has significantly changed since…? Part of the “solution” needs to be the long game.
Respectfully
David
Neutrality doesn´t make a problem go away.
Hey ,I like you ,man !
"Collective Unconscious" Well put!
Thank you Mark.
Cliff Diving !!! You nutter. I bet its an incredible feeling but you have some bottle brother.
As always spot on Mark!
Hi Mark, thank you very much for your videos. I fully agree with your message given my recent meeting and conversations I had with a Russian GP who has lives in Belgium for twenty years.
Thanks again for another high-content video!
Very interesting. Thanks, Mark.
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Thanks, Mark.
Mark you always bring inspiration with all your videos, I totally enjoyed it, very informative as usual. I love it, and will share it.
Tak!
Thank you Nannette! Thank you sincerely, sorry for the delayed reply I have been doing a lot over the last four days. Have a beautiful day, Mark
I always look forward to Mark's vids.
This channel is growing. Keep up the good work.🎉😊❤
The problem with the agricultural theory is that the brain-shrinking has probably been happening since much earlier (100kyBP) than the agrarian revolution. The one guy (J. DeSilva, an anthropologist at Dartmouth College in the US) who proposed the starting point at 3 kyBP has changed his estimates to between 20 kyBP 5 kyBP. Maybe our brains just became more efficient with less need for brain cells to do the same work.
Great presentation, thank you. Sadly the Russian people of Russia are lost souls after over 100 years of never rejecting totalitarian rule under Stalin/Lenin. This deficit of human empathy in Russia goes back to it's earliest day's, the beginning of their history as a people, a nation, an empire builder.
I do not forsee a any change because they can't imagine free will, democracy and only understand being subservient to an all powerful leader.
Thank you. BTW, the last video was also great.
Good morning Mark,
Now i will see your video, i know i can make 👍 before i see it.
Have a nice day
Thank you K66a865, have a nice day.
Well said!
It may be that hunter gatherers were much better at controlling their bodies. The had a larger proportion of the brain devoted to this.
Love your videos Mark
I very much enjoy your broad views on things and your general positive attitude. Always looking forward to the next video. Keep on doing the stuff you are doing, please continue with your mission. I enjoy your thoughts and discourse.
BRILLIANT IDEAS- HOW COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS CORREALATRS
Russians think their collective conscience is something higher while proving opposite by deeds
The collective unconscious and things like corrosive skepticism are interesting concepts. Import for countries!
Very perceptive
Dear Mark another thought provoking video.
Can I recommend you to listen to a recent BBC Radio 4 programme. "The Food Programme", hosted by a lassie called Sheila Dillon, 27 Sep edition. A great discussion on food and how it affects health, especially mental health. Great contributions from Kimberly Wilson , author of "Unprocessed: How The Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis". With contributions from Dr Ally Jaffee, famous chef Heston Blumenthal and educationalist and school dinner advocate Natilie Hackett. One point mentioned during the discussion was that about 25% of all the calories we eat are consumed by the brain. I'm sure you will enjoy listening to this programme.
Your broadcast today puts the spotlight on moral behaviour, be it individual or collective.
I really enjoy your fresh insights into topics rarely discussed in other forums.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you for that recommendation, I tend to like BBC programs.
I'm sure Sheila would be delighted to be thought of as a lassie. 🙂
There's many a gem on R4. I usually have it on as my audio wallpaper.
I didn't catch that episode so giving a listen now on iplayer.
A subject of interest to me is the gut microbiome which also has brain developmental implications amongst others.
Hey Mark - as always your point of view is fresh and insightful. Thanks for putting these ideas out there.... yeah, people everywhere need to choose sides, and yeah we have a moral obligation to help those being beat up by psychos and nutters. We have a duty to lead the latter out of darkness too. There are a very few who are beyond redemption, but all deserve some chances to change.
I love history economics!
Damn mark your channel seems to be growing nice! Good work, Great content.
But anyway he’s channel won’t grow that much at all - there’s simply not that many people able to follow him 😊😜
@@volkerr. Yeah? I subbed when he was at 5k or so, now he's at 20k. It's not been that long. Soon he'll be at 50k, I'm sure. Give it 6ish months.
@@adamk.7177 I think you didn’t get it..?! 😜 it was kind of word game… there’s not enough people intelligent enough to understand what he says. That’s why he can’t get really many followers
Justice for Ukraine!
My - German - grandmother always used to say: leave thinking to the cows - they have bigger heads 😂
She used that when somebody did something wrong and was arguing with: but I thought…😅
My theory regarding the recent decrease in brain size is that it is due to the ability to think abstractly. When you think abstractly, you don't need to think about specific instances as much. Abstract thinking allow the brain to be more efficient. I have met people who struggle to think abstractly. In my experience, those people struggle to function in our society.
Great video, and as a Brit can i also say that i love Poland. Will be going for the 10th time in November (Poznan) :)
I always enjoy your videos, but this one was a bit different. I enjoyed the interesting snippets of information combined with simple moral principles. The morality seems so obvious, and yet, here we are, with millions not 'getting it'. Keep up the good work in spreading your dogma-free, common sense observations, as we all should be doing.
From my philosophical position I would argue with late Wittgenstein, and add, that collective unconsciousness is a concept that just summs up many aspects like cultural habits and stories , but is not necessary and even not a scientific view onto the world. From my biological position, it is obvious, that brain size does not correlate to intelligence in the ranges, we are talking about here, either. The complexity in the brain is reached by interactions on so many levels, that I could write a whole book to match it at least a bit. Size is only one factor besides at last 7 further ones that do fall into my mind spontaneously. I will not explain them further, dropping them in a short way is only thought to be a hint at what kind of complexity on different levels I refer to: Increase in surface area due to the variety and type of folds, general type and structure of the network, partitioning and interconnectivity throughout the network, division of labor in the compartiments, interacting cell types and cell fuctions (Neurons, Glia, but also excitatory and inhibitory nerve cell types etc), genetics as the fundamental base - but only in interaction with the environment of an individual - which again matches the cultural aspects mentioned further above and also including nutrition, interactions of neurohormons together with the hormone system of the body in general and throughout the network, .. I´ll stop here, because, I think it will be enough to see, which points I wanted to make. Depth psychology on the other hand, that developed 100 years ago and in parallel to classical modern psychology, reminds me more a bit of those "theories" of homeopathy, that have developed in parallel to and in the early stages of the development of modern medicine, 200 years ago. I am a Neuroscientist, Biologist and have studied Philosophy (especially Philosophy of language and Philosophy of science) in parallel. Greetings from Nuremberg, Germany - and Slava Ukraini
Russian Mentality is a "Bystander Effect Mentality"
Perfect. More so than even under the Soviet Union at this point.
Thanks for an interesting start to Sunday. Over the years I have realised their is one key rule to life - There is no free Lunch. And one approach to life - everything we do is based on assumptions about fact not the facts themselves because they are often to complex to interpret in real time or for many, to research. So always keep checking your assumptions (doubt your doubts) and keep looking for the actual price of your actions. Russians could do well to apply both to their thinking because Putin's war on Ukraine is clearly built on false assumptions and demonstrably isn't free.
Jacob Bronowski and his seminal TV series The ascent of Man come highly recommended. A little slow by modern standards but also by modern standards an amazingly dense assembly of Thought and Reasoning and still incredibly relevant. From the same era as the equally seminal Cosmos by Carl Sagan - back when TV was more than reality TV. In the same genre I would recommend Kenneth Clarke's Civilisation. All or parts of them can be tracked down here on RUclips.
Thanks for yet another interesting video. When talking about the collective unconsciousness it is easy to be misled by the reification fallacy. Also, it is important to understand that Russian’s and their ethics cannot be measured or understood from the standpoint of Western, liberal, humanistic values. The Russian Soul has been forged for 500 years. It is at its core characterised by the unbridled desire to cause pain and lie. The only moral codex they subscribe to is “might make right”. Notions such as human rights and equal value, cannot be intelligibly conceived by the Russian mind. We have to understand that concepts such as ”good" and "bad" has completely different denotations for a Russian than for the rest of Mankind. This is a people that prioritise suffering before anything else, and then brag about it.
Argh. Russians simply must find a way to a happier psychology and philosophy, something better than passively enduring pain and deprivation.
Finno-Ugrians were thousands of years longer in Paleolith. That is the cause.
Good point friend.
0:58 „if you can’t doubt everything than even your doubts should have doubts. Then this should be the starting point for truth.“ Could you explain me this sentence? Do you mean that a person is then overloaded with questioning everything that it is time to act and search for truth? Thanks in advance ✌🏻
If doubts are your start point for truth then your baseline is fear and not love…
Descartes uses doubt in his meditations in his pursuit of truth, the ultimate good.
Just another excuse for hate. A false sense of status. Your truth at whatever cost.
@@raymondkey1952You're way off base here and missing the whole point.
Doubt is perfectly healthy.
Fear and criticism of doubt is not.
Scepticism has often led to the truth where doubt was feared.
Suppression of doubt has all too often led to a severe lack of love.
@@bakedbean37 They're not allowed to doubt Putin in Putin's Russia, as in any repressive dictatorship.
Since we do not still live in caves, I think there is some excess of constructive urges over destructive urges.
9:29 Jakob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man" is available as an excellent BBC short series on RUclips.
If you want a recommendation, Sir David Attenborough credited Bronowski, his then-boss, as his inspiration.
A connecting aspect: If there is an overall human (sub)consciousness, being neutral equates to abandoning the collective responsibility of that consciousness.
More starkly phrased: How "human" are you when you opt to look away?
We can say: alright, then maybe there is a collective conscious per state and interests of the state and the collective are therefor 1) co-aligned 😂 and 2) indipendent from other states and collectives.
These 2 points are obviously false but narratives in isolationalist / nationalist circles desperately try to make the case ..
Thanks for your videos btw. Sometimes a bit hard to follow but I feel inspiration and hope through you from time to time.
Hunter gatherers individually were smarter than human's today, but also more much more aggressive and living in small-isolated tribes.
Human society today is infinitely larger, delegates functions to groups, creating an infinitely smarter, less fragile, superorganism.
What you say about neutrality is always is on the side of the agressor has direct economic consequences. Switzerland's armament industry is starting to feel the negative consequences of being neutral in the Ukraine conflict as most of their contracts are coming to term and not being renewed.
Or just leave Russia, and refuse to fund/ take part of it.
Yes but also fund humanitarian aid.
Marks says, "Collective Unconscious" and I think, "Archetype."
At my advancing age I look to AI:
Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious implies archetypal behavior:
Collective unconscious
The collective unconscious is a part of the mind that contains inherited memories and impulses that are common to all humans. It's distinct from the personal unconscious, which comes from an individual's experiences.
Archetypes
Archetypes are universal ideas and behavior patterns that are created by shared memories in the collective unconscious. They can be expressed as symbols, signs, or patterns of thinking. Some examples of archetypes include the hero, the anima, the persona, the shadow, and the trickster.
Archetypal behavior
Archetypal behavior is a pattern of behavior that activates in response to certain situations. Archetypes can influence a person's feelings and actions, and they often don't follow cultural rules or traditions.
Examples of archetypal behavior
Archetypal behavior can be expressed in dreams, visions, myths, and fairytales. For example, the anima image is thought to be active in childhood, where it projects superhuman qualities onto the mother.
Jung used his theory of the collective unconscious to explain how social phobias and fears can manifest in people without an obvious reason. He also believed that dreams compensate for parts of the psyche that aren't fully developed during waking life.
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That's an interesting take. Just a brief intro : I read a lot of Jung's books since I was very interested in that notion of a collective unconscious. I also read a lot about symbolism, like tarot cards and the like. Nothing like occult B.S. I also am a hardcore skeptic.
And I know for a fact that human beings ability for non-verbal communication is MUCH higher than most people suspect, to the point that it feels like telepathy. Once again, nothing supernatural in this, it only works when you're in the physical presence of the other party. And it's not conscious. It's probably a relic of our time as hunters, like how wolves can act as a pack without language.
You posit that the collective unconscious is somehow stored in the social fabric, which is rather different than what Jung was driving at, I.E that all humans have a deep layer of symbols and archetypes that we all share somehow. But then again, Jung didn't really try to determine if that was present in our brains or in our society...
The idea that that deep layer of archetypal concepts would be stored in the social fabric, probably largely relying on this subconscious, non-verbal communication, is quite interesting. But it has some very positive and also very frightening implications.
The collective unconscious does not only have positive archetypes, like the solar hero. It also has very dark figures and symbols.
What do you do when a society is seized by such dark figures ? How do you get back to the light ? How do you consider the people that are in such a grip ?
And what of the responsibility of those that drive such a dark descent ? How do you reconcile that with free speech ?
I'll try to think of that. Anyways, thanks for the message, it opens a very interesting train of thought.
Dictatorships by their nature historically tend to be paranoid and/or empire building bullies. Democracies tend to be economic predators rather than war mongers.
The Mongol empire was said to be pacified through the introduction of Buddhism. 🖖
I love this comment about Buddhism. Religion plays an important part in the collective consciousness.
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Contrast with the Russian Orthodox Church/KGB synthesis.🤮
There haven't been too many anti war protests in the west either.
Iraq , libia, Yemen, Syria and now gaza. All of which the public have been largely indifferent to
Any tips on learning Polish?
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12:40 my grandfather was also about to br conscripted for 20-30 years, so he fled to Poland.
You doubt everything by constantly analysing? Hello INTP, my friend. 😏
Hello GermanTaffer.
Our computers have shrunk a billion times since the 1940s, while becoming a trillion times faster. Something similar could have had happen to our brains too, which would be only logical because the more you use a given organ, the more competent it will become. And the russians have yet to learn to use their cortex
For the terrible one is brought to nought,
and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. Isaiah 29:20-21, God's AV1611 Holy Scriptures
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A vestigial tail: Were we left with sociopathology when the human brain shrank?
Sir, you have a good foundation in philosophy but I wish you brought with you a more solid foundation in Russian history. From the Tsar to Commies and Authoritarian there are some lessons there about the Russian people
Perhaps the ancestors of these Russian siloviki types accidentally gave up 1.5 lemons instead of only 1.
Kim Jong Un's hat size implies superior intelligence? Many appear to think so.
Read "Extraodinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". An old book but still relevent.
Mark, I disagree. Myth is far older than the brain size change. Jon at Crecganford covers myth, well worth following on RUclips.
Russians consider this war the only way to stop nato advancing closer to their borders, and also the only way to stop Ukraine attacking ethnic Russians in the Donbas, assuming they lose which they won’t they won’t feel any guilt, even with those sanctions.
I love Jung, Campbell, and even Bronowski. However, most people think they are dated or woo-woo today. Robert Sapolsky is another matter, even though he focuses on physical evolution not the development of ideas and cultures. He points out how tribalism is in our brains, as it were. How culture evolved symbiotically with our biology and now the power of culture is so immense he posits we don’t even have free will-a contested conclusion. ruclips.net/video/ke8oFS8-fBk/видео.html
Assuming we are knowingly creating our societal structures. The beauty of Canada and America is that our systems attempt to establish countries free of racism; the evolved biological tendency to group people into “one of us” and “the other.” We aren’t doing very well. But we are doing better than any other country in the world today. There is hope for Russia. But not until their culture is redefined.
I enjoy your thought-provoking presentations. However, as a retired experimental physicist, I am aware of several forces, which while invisible, produce visibly observable effects. Furthermore, as a parent and keen observer of human behavior, I am aware that (invisible) beliefs significantly influence (invisible) thinking, choices, and emotions, which become visible through observable behaviors. Accordingly. it is easier and simpler to "understand" Russian behavior through culture or indoctrination-transmission of beliefs, than by invoking arguable theoretical constructs such as "collective unconsciousness".
Furthermore, since the most careful carbon-14 measurements of the deepest diamonds and anthracite coal reveal that the earth is
Collective unconsciousness or cultural transmission net net it is the same. I like the literary mythological explanations as they speak to the stratification of the reality the human brains works in, but I do love physics also.
the koala bear evolved to have a small brain. a small brain use less energy