Howard Bloom: Exercising the Animals in Our Brains

Howard Bloom sits down with ScienceInSeconds.com correspondent Brit Trogen to talk video games and the brain.

Howard Bloom is the author of: "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History" ("mesmerizing"-The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"-The New Yorker), and How I Accidentally Started The Sixties ("a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement." Timothy Leary).
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-genius-the-beast
http://www.scientificblogging.com/howard_bloom
http://www.youtube.com/user/HowardBloomDotNet

Howard is also a former Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute; Former Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University
Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; Founder, Space Development Steering Committee; Founder: The Group Selection Squad; Founding Board Member: Epic of Evolution Society; Founding Board Member, The Darwin Project; Member Of Board Of Governors, National Space Society; Founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology, Scientific Advisory Board Member, Lifeboat Foundation; Advisory Board Member: The Buffalo Film Festival.

Brit Trogen interviewed Howard for this segment produced by Creative Mindworks Productions and Comedy Jesus. Directed by Troy Conrad, this clip is from the upcoming series "Howard Bloom: The Truth at any Price"
For more Brit Trogen, go to www.scienceinseconds.com

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[bugogorac]

I had a LAN room with 8 PC's back in the day when internet wasn't very available. I could see with my own eyes the transformation of criminal kids. They were coming in my game room with hand grenades and regularly treathening with knives. I had a knife on my throat several times. It wasn't the country at the time where you could call the police to solve your problems. After a few months of games, they became harmless. I am convinced games help in reduction of the aggression. Just look at nerds.

[nitrodavid]

how do you titillate an Ocelot, you oscillate it's tit-alot

[SirSinaFallah]

What the hell is this guy talking about??

[unorthodoxJ]

Wasn't there more then 3 minutes? Why not post more

[iPhap]

Oh, you.

[TheEnglishAtheist1]

@iPhap I disagree with the beating of your heart.

[iPhap]

I disagree. 

[TheEnglishAtheist1]

@iPhap You need to have your brains blown out of your head with a shotgun.

[Blainedwayne]

Does this guy sound like Ian Malcolm(Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park) to anyone else?

[Superior1000]

@sachrehega What you need to understand, is that you actually need to back that up if anyone's to understand why. If not, all you're showing us is that you have ignorance in spades.

[mqemphatic38]

It's true. We, as mammal-animals that have evolved, have born instincts ... and also sexual instincts. It would explain why being gay isn't a choice but more of a born instinct. It explains why if a person operating from their 'Lizard Brain' craves conflict, but then through video-games, can exercise the need for dominance and control. Perhaps, it's more a human instinct to want to dominate and control more over actual violence? Perhaps violence is only the means to that end? VERY insightful.

[iPhap]

Trololololo.

[lunchbomb]

@sachrehega im embarresed to be reading your comment, you know what bullshiters do?! they insult, and explain nothing, kinda like what your doing, Bullshiter.

[WakingApnea]

@sachrehega

then explain why he's wrong, because I thought he made a decent point. but if it's just pseudo-intellectual bullshit, and you can see through it so easily, explain his mistakes.

[sachrehega]

Just stumbled upon this video. I must say it is one of the corniest, pathetic, and cringe-worthy examples of pseudo-intellectualism I have ever seen. I literally feel embarrassed watching it. He thinks what he’s saying is so remarkable - ha ha. Hilarious the way americans latch on to this stuff, shown by the way she words the question at the beginning. So sad.

[Keim4ever]

@TheAnonymousAnomie oh yeah

[pastordisastor]

@nitrodavid  its

[unorthodoxJ]

@allibyx I believe it's ocelot

[LaGuerre19]

2:04 As if this gentleman was not already brimful with win, he has his OWN NAME embroidered on the left breast of his own shirt. Fantastic. Oh... I almost forgot the obligatory sexist, misogynistic, women-are-objects, low-brow remark requisite of all youtube posts: I'd embroider my name on HER left breast! Yeah!

[BuRninsh]

@Hjernespreng I wanted to comment the same thing on masturbation and scrolled down to comments and what i see. You ripped words out of my mouth =) 

[Hjernespreng]

Gamin can be like masturbation. A vent for "frustration". Both are harmless vents.

Keep it in and suppress it and shit may go wrong...

[TheAnonymousAnomie]

that chick makes me want to exercise the animal in my dangly parts

[JIZZZification]

@bugogorac i love that"just look at nerds" LOL yeah plus they love you with all than PCs

[defect530]

@frymastermeat

it's hard to do.

[frymastermeat]

@defect530

Keep up the good work!