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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Preditor Defense System Is at the Bottom of the Nervous System
You're moving forward according to a scheme. And the scheme is being validated simultaneously. Something happens that's unexpected. What should you do? Stop first. Then the preditor can't see you, right? That's the freezing reaction of a prey animal. The preditor defense system is at the bottom of your cognitive apparatus. But that initial architecture is duplicated across the the levels of differentiation of the nervous system....
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