…quite unconscious. They're quite unaware. You know, there's a new book called Determined by the... Stanford, a neuroscientist, neurobiologist, Robert Sapolsky. And he says that we barely even have free will because we're so determined by our history and our…

…give you the chance to read it out loud. Okay, thank you, Saf. So the quote is from a recent book by Robert Sapolsky. And Robert Sapolsky is a He's a neuroscientist, a neurobiologist at the University of Stanford in Colorado. He's a very long author.…

…chance to read it out loud. Okay, thank you, Saf. So the quote is from a recent book by Robert Sapolsky. And Robert Sapolsky is a He's a neuroscientist, a neurobiologist at the University of Stanford in Colorado. He's a very long author. And he's written…

…Determined. And the title doesn't mean determined in a sense of being committed or intent on something. It means predetermined. And Sapolsky writes, we are nothing more or less than the sum of that which we could not control, our biology, environments, and…

…what I'm saying to you, that shame is a lack of compassion towards yourself. You have nothing to be ashamed of. Like Robert Sapolsky says, you're the product of a certain biology, a certain history. That's the first point, okay? So that shame is a lack…

…lens of trauma then is what interprets present circumstances for us. And that's what's going on so much right now. Robert Sapolsky, who is a wonderful neurobiologist and neuroscientist and writer at Stanford, he just came up with a book called Determined.…

…that doesn't justify any particular action, but at least it provides a context. And it's not about making the wrong past. Sapolsky, who I quoted, said something interesting. He said two things. He talks about the absurdity of hating any person for anything…

…getting involved with trauma, human development, has led me to understand that so much of what governs us is unconscious. And Robert Sapolsky is quite right. But in many ways, more ways than we imagine, we lack freedom of will because we're controlled by…

…what I'm talking about. But it's just science. What do you think about free will? I spent so much time with Robert Sapolsky from Stanford University. And he says there's no free will. There's no free will. We are biological machines. Everything is…

…whatever's. This is what made you you, and none of it are things you had control over. What do you think about it? Well, Sapolsky was a brilliant mind. He wrote this book called Determined. in which he says that we're just a product of our past and…

…when I was a puppet and we're all foolish when we're puppets we're pulled by these invisible strings of the unconscious that's what Sapolsky is talking about but we don't have to stay there we don't have to stay there Can what is happening in Gaza to…

…did their personalities. So I'm going to quote you from a neuroscientist from Harvard, sorry, Stanford University. His name is Robert Sapolsky, incidentally. If you haven't had him on your show, you should. Do you know about Robert Sapolsky? Oh, check him…

…University. His name is Robert Sapolsky, incidentally. If you haven't had him on your show, you should. Do you know about Robert Sapolsky? Oh, check him out. Check him out, for God's sakes. He's at Stanford. He's a wonderful speaker. You're going to see…

…and self-centered and utterly brutal. So we cannot talk about human nature as such. As a matter of fact, the neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University has said that the nature of our nature is not to be particularly constrained by our nature.…

…pulling the strings is exactly the right analogy. There's a neurobiologist, neuroscientist quite well known at Stanford University, Robert Sapolsky, who wrote a book recently called Determined, by which he means predetermined. He basically says there's no such…

…can we take responsibility so we don't pass it on to the next one? But blame, there's no room for it. Yeah. And Robert Sapolsky, the scientist who I quoted, he said, there's just no room for blame. Yeah, it's not, yeah, you can have discussions about…