Podcast Discussion (December): Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science
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Podcast Discussion (December): Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior
This is “part II” of the interview. The first part is more or less about psychology specifically whilst this second part expands into different ideas about the approach of scientists, certain biases of scientific fields, and how these two people came together and inspired each others work:
https://www.offtheclockpsych.com/podcas ... al-science
The discussion is quite wide ranging and I imagine there is something of interest for everyone.
Note: Will probably be throwing out a different podcast every month (or maybe two if people are interested.) I’ll give whoever is interested to have a listen and will post something within the next few days highlighting some of the things that interested me in the discussion.
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Their reference to "Prosocial" technique is sounds very interesting as well. They didn't mention EO Wilson by name but they talked a lot about group selection, and I'm curious what kind of techniques are involved given some of their supporting data like the success in its application to at-risk youth.
I also found their Nietzschean perspective on early childhood trauma to be very surprising. It reminds me of Nassim Taleb's conception of "Antifragility", describing things that become stronger under conditions of stress and disorder. I wonder what kind of conversation these two would have on Gabor Mate's work on addiction, in which he theorizes addiction to be the consequence of unresolved trauma, especially in early childhood.
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Re: Podcast Discussion (December): Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science
I wouldn’t say they’ve “stretched” the meaning of evolution, but take on its meaning beyond a clockwork deterministic attitude often brought to the table by geneticists.
As mentioned in the discussion neuroscience and psychology have started to bridge the gap between a more human take in the world and the distanced scientific methodology that has to, by definition, keep human thought at some distance (the object over the subject issue).
When they talked about “groups” I took this as a look at emergent properties over hard and fast measurements that although obviously useful can inhibit investigation into other areas making all “soft science” appear flimsy at best - when to dismiss physics over psychology, or psychology of physics was something nicely summed up by the human attitude toward a sunset. We naturally way or the other in regards to different phenomenological experience; it is foolish to say that either analytical thinking or emotional content has more useful application (although in some situations one may trump the other easily enough - like when ciewkng a sunset).
I also took the thoughts put forward on language to reflect the disparity between differing fields of research. What I find bery encouraging is how neuroscience, behavioural biology and psychology have began to mesh together and feed off of each other. The hard science will remain the foundation of study, yet it is up to the human element (the aesthetic sensibilities) to step away from the analysis of data and to move into areas where attempts to make measurements fail to give anything but fleeting consistancy and to try to pry out of these wilder corners of human thinking something applicable to hard science adn open up a new pathway so will can better “measure”/“predict” a more productive/fulfilling route to discovery.
It is the fortunate discoveries that often lead to progress. The refinement, as you put it, would be the analysis of the phenomenon after it becomes broadly recognised as important to academic research. Mathematicians don’t set out to play the stock markets or model the physicsl world, yet time and time again obscure mathematical ideas collide with the “real” world producing marked technological advances - people climb mountains because they are there.
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