I've watched a number of his courses online and want to find them and share them here if I can find free versions.

For now, there's a talk here on 'The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst'

Cool. I completely forgot about this thread.

As mentioned in the other thread, he's releasing a book next month arguing that free will, as we typically conceive of it, does not exist. I've heard him say before that free will is just biology we haven't discovered yet.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/book ... -sapolsky/

I look forward to being persuaded because, while I don't think that 'free will' is a meaningful idea, I also don't believe that all our thoughts and actions are fully determined either. I've always struggled with the terminology to express this, so I hope the book will give me new ways to consider and talk about it.

I can personally recommend Sopoksky's books Behave, and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers. The first focuses on aggression and the second on stress. Both readable, witty, and rigorously backed up.

I have Behave on my Kindle but haven't read it yet. For the most part the last couple of years I've only really being reading textbooks on computer networking and music theory.

I've recently started getting back into reading for fun again. I might bump Behave up to my next book.

THWOTH wrote:Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.

I just found a photocopy from this book in my class notes from 25 years ago - didn't even realize it was from this book, actually, as the copied section is about dominance hierarchies in baboons.