2017 Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

What came first the Chicken or the Egg? The Dragon of Chaos

0:00 What is the most real? What has shaped humans? Not just one era of evolutionary history. 10:00 Math, things that are real, abstraction. 24:00 Cars aren't just cars. 38:00 prefrontal cortex extends motor cortex 41:00 Intelligence and conscientiousness correlation 52:00 Action, dreams, representation 59:45 Kids will drive you crazy if you don't act your words out. Development of wisdom is bringing actions and words in concordance. 1:02:00 Emotional expressions are about broadcasting intent 1:05:00 Brexit etc from 2008 global collapse, modularity vs integration 1:09:00 Dreams are not random, right hemisphere moving stuff to left 1:12:00 Attention is the top god 1:20:30 Abstractions and archetypes 1:26:00 Depression associated with right hemisphere, happiness with left 1:35:00 Cooperation is self interested 2:08:00 Serpent on the rod

it's Friday night, I'm on the couch wrapped up in a blanket with a dog curled up at my feet and a beer in my hand listening to Jordy P lay out some deep knowledge... pretty much EXACTLY how I thought my 30's would play out.

Start listening to Prof Jordan Peterson after a very low emotional time in my life 5 months ago. He builds me up every day as I listen to his lectures on a daily basis for at least 5 hours. Today I feel again my old self. More confident and find myself ( that I lost a long time ago ). Thank you so much for this insightful way of thinking.

"what kinda music you listening to?" "A psych 434 lecture." "Nice ... Is that metal? Or rap?" "It's rap."

"Educators can be father figures." indeed Dr. Peterson, indeed.

I would like to thank Jordan’s parents for giving us this gift to humanity during our lifetime.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the Professor's hand game? Very animated, and I've noticed it's creative and not very repetitive. The sound effects are good, too, when he does that. I particularly like the sound effect he does of something crumbling.

Help me. I'm addicted to this content.

"It's great to have disscussions with your enemies, they will tell you things that YOU DO NOT KNOW" Holy shit that is good 1:17:06 on is just gold

Jorden will be inspiring a whole generation of psychologically astute leaders and transformational change agents. He is a giant among giants.

Jordan B Peterson: having at least 10-15 Mic drop moments every lecture!

The role of the mother: to bring the child back to order in the face of overwhelming chaos. The role of the father: to push the child out into the chaos in the face of excessive order.

My best friend and I had to take a week off of this lecture series because of how mind blowing it is. We still talk about it on our walks, about how the Ford car company wasn't just building a car but a cultural idea, and how cool Egyptian lore is and how it influenced our Western Judeo-Christian structure. Thank you.

The idea towards the end of the video of the Democratization of Osiris (starting at 2:18:39) may be one of the most profound ideas Dr. Peterson has shared. I love how he explained that sovereignty started moving down the hierarchy throughout time, from Ancient Egypt to Ancient Greece to Christianity. I think the most important part may be from 2:20:48 to 2:21:06. Dr. Peterson explains just how ancient the ideas we attribute to the Enlightenment are, and shows why it would be dangerous to think our values are Enlightenment ideas or that our values can be rationalized. This strikes at the heart of every ideology today, and it shows an alternate solution to Nietszche's ubermen, that we need to reconnect to our ancient values. It is dangerous to attribute our values to the Enlightenment or to rationalism because it lends credibility to all sorts of dangerous ideologies we see on the rise today. This is why Dr. Peterson says Nietszche foresaw the rise of totalitarianism. The truth is that we have values that are not rationalized, and are ancient beyond what we can even imagine. If you watch many of Dr. Peterson's lectures, he makes the case that our values are grounded on a biological basis that we share with rats, and that can be extended back to behaviors we share with lobsters. The biological basis for our values go back hundreds of millions of years, much earlier than the time when we could rationalize our values or even be vaguely aware of them like the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians were. Leaning too much on rationalism has completely disconnected us from our ancient values, values that we once lived out without thinking just by being social animals in a dominance hierarchy. It's amazing, it's so amazing. Now I see why Dr. Peterson thinks Panksepp's discovery of the play circuit in mice is worthy of a Nobel prize, because it opens the door into some of the deepest realities of our being. It's absolutely amazing.

This is by far the most comprehensive and interesting lecture I've seen from the doc. The whole thing is just FIRE

By far the most informational and interesting lecture I have ever had the pleasure of being a part of. Thank you for sharing your knowledge so freely and openly. It is greatly appreciated.

27:01 when someone's phone started vibrating I compulsively checked my phone (which was on silent) and simultaneously got the first text message I've received in 14 hours. A job opportunity. Bloody synchronicity, eh?

Im so thankful to be able to get this knowladge without having to attend this school physicly, what a great time we live in

These are unbelievably good lectures. I just might watch every single upload.