[atomic.determinist writes:]
I've seen your content on determinism.
Was expecting a video on Robert Sapolsky to be there ?
Are you familiar of his work/lectures/books/arguments ?
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[And I reply:]
Yeah, the problem is that I'M NOT A MORON. I'd really encourage you to unsubscribe and enjoy one of youtube's many channels that are BY MORONS, FOR MORONS, instead. Such as the Joe Rogan podcast, where you'll find Robert Sapolsky was a guest.
"Robert Sapolsky views depression as a severe biological disorder, analogous to diabetes, rather than a failure of willpower, and generally advocates for the use of medication to address its neurobiological underpinnings. He highlights that antidepressants, such as SSRIs, function by altering neurotransmitter levels (blocking serotonin re-uptake), which helps manage the brain chemistry underlying depression. Sapolsky frequently asserts that depression is a disease that "screams biology," comparable to diabetes in its biological necessity for treatment. Robert Sapolsky views major depression as a severe, biological disease—not a personal failing—that often requires pharmacological intervention, such as SSRIs, to manage."
[The relationship between these two "philosophies" is neither incidental nor coincidental: there was a time when I would have said "I do not make enough money from youtube to justify putting the time and effort into criticizing these things" —but now, admittedly, money is no object, and I'm no long struggling to pay my rent, as I was before. It is just impossible to justify the critique of something so self-evidently stupid, created with such bad intentions, especially in a cultural context of so much habitual dishonesty: people like Cosmic Skeptic will never admit or discuss publicly the extent to which beliefs of this kind have really damaged their lives. This is just another god with another altar, and the lives that the believers sacrifice are most often their own.]
