But such a statistical breakdown does not entail or legitimate a breakdown of rationality. At one point, he notes that it may well be that 51 percent of scientists hold one view on a critical issue, whereas 49 percent hold a different view. He accepts uncertainty as a feature of the scientific life.
Sapolsky rejects mysticism and convenient shortcuts. Everything he offers by way of answering his question is grounded in a traditional and sturdy scientific worldview as conceived during the enlightenment and having evolved since. He draws on anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics as they relate to his central question: Can we understand and perhaps even predict why and when people behave shabbily or decently? And can we do this without resorting to moral philosophy or folk psychology? His answer, evolving over 700 pages, is that yes we can, but it is complicated and will remain so.
Robert Sapolsky, biologist, primatologist, and endocrinologist, has transcended his fields of origin and written a magisterial work on human nature (Penguin, 2017). “ internal forces I do not understand.” ~ Marvin Minsky, quoted in Behave by Robert M.
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