The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

Sep 13, 2020

02:35:22

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The hierarchy of ethical guidelines

01:23

The Power of Mathematical Representations and the Category of Potential

01:21

Abstract thought and the role of the pre frontal cortex

01:17

The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Processing Danger and Unknowns

01:22

Introduction

2min

What Are the Constants of Experience?

2min

Evolutionary Psychology - I Don't Believe That

2min

What Are the Fundamental Constituent Elements?

3min

What Are the Most Real Categories?

4min

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3min

What Are the Constants of Experience?

2min

Is It Possible That in Five Hundred Years, We'll Be So Different Than We Are Now?

2min

What Are the Fundamental Constituent Elements?

3min

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What Are the Most Real Categories?

4min

11.

Is a a Equivalent to B?

2min

12.

The Chicken and Egg Problem, Right?

2min

13.

What Is Conscious Being?

2min

14.

The Pinocchio Story Isn't Just the Plot of the Poem, It's the Story of the Development of the Individual

2min

15.

Where Are the Missing Characters?

2min

16.

The Dragon of Chaos

2min

17.

The Ultimate Question of Life Is How Do You Deal With Death?

3min

18.

The Garden of Eden Is a Walled Garden

2min

19.

Is It a Choice?

2min

20.

The Multi Method, Multitrate Matrix

2min

21.

The Multi Method, Multi Trace Matrix Process

3min

22.

You Can't Separate Out Motor Output From Sensory Input

3min

23.

The Knower and the Unknown

2min

24.

What Is Consciousness?

2min

25.

The Difference Between Intelligence and Consciousness

3min

26.

The Body Isn't Thinking, It's Just Acting

2min

27.

What Is a Homunculus?

2min

28.

How Many Fingers on Your Back?

2min

29.

The Motor and the Sensory Homunculus

2min

30.

How to Be a Good Person in Your Child's Life

2min

31.

How Can You Unite Your Attention Between Two and Four?

2min

32.

The Dominance Hierarchy

2min

33.

The Origin of English Common Law

2min

34.

Is There a Meta Rule That Guides All Other Rules?

2min

35.

What's the Ideal Situation for Parenting?

3min

36.

What Are You Looking At?

2min

37.

The Modularity of the Brain

2min

38.

How Does the Brain Work?

2min

39.

The Right Hemisphere Is Dominating Subcortical Processes

2min

40.

Dreams Are Not Random, They're Just Random

2min

41.

The Mythological Hero

2min

42.

The Eye Isn't Working

2min

43.

Social Anxiety and Behavior Therapy

1min

44.

Pay Attention to Your Enemies

2min

45.

The Preditor Defense System Is at the Bottom of the Nervous System

2min

46.

The Left Hemisphere Manages That Wholistic Thinking

2min

47.

Activation of Behaviour Is Associated With Movement Forward

2min

48.

Positive and Negative Emotions

2min

49.

How Does the Brain Work?

2min

50.

The Hippocampus Is Central to Positive Emotions

2min

51.

Is Your Model of the World Failing?

3min

52.

Chimpanzees - Is There a Dominance Hierarchy?

2min

53.

Chimpanzees Are Friends

2min

54.

Trading Relationships - How to Play a Game Once

2min

55.

The Importance of Honesty

3min

56.

The Power of Self Preservation

1min

57.

The Meta Story of Marduk

2min

58.

The Two Primary Gods Are Apsu and Abso

1min

59.

Yen in Yang - The Primary Mother and Father of Humanity

2min

60.

What Do the Elder Gods Represent?

2min

61.

The Two Year Old Is a Battle Ground of Primary Motivation Forces

2min

62.

The Dead Past Is Not Just the Dead Past

2min

63.

Sleeping Beauty - A Flood Myth

2min

64.

Apocalypse - Is Mother Nature Going to Take Offence?

2min

65.

The King of the Gods Is the Thing That Confronts Chaos and Regenerates Order

2min

66.

I'll Do It, but I'm King of the Gods

2min

67.

What's the Difference Between Good and Evil?

2min

68.

The Knowledge of Good and Evil Comes as a Consequence of the Knowledge of Nakedness

2min

69.

Why Should You Be King?

2min

70.

Is It a Bird or a Dragon?

2min

71.

The Open Virgin or the Opening Virgin?

2min

72.

The Voluntary Confrontation of Suffering Is Crucial to Its Transcendence

2min

73.

Isn't It Crazy, It's Crazy?

2min

74.

The Snake Handler - I'm a Charlotte, and He's a Fake

2min

75.

Is He Someone You Shouldn't Trust?

2min

76.

The Father Is the Source of Trust

2min

77.

What's the Difference Between Father and Mother in Psychotherapy?

2min

78.

The Democratization of Osiris in the Egyptian Society

1min

79.

The Individual Is the Eye That Plays, Not the Game, but the Medi Game

2min

In this lecture, Dr. Peterson discusses the relationship between the basic categories of imagistic/symbolic representation and brain function, noting that the very hemispheres of the brain are adapted, right/left to the environmental or experiential permanence of chaos/order or unexplored/explored territory, with consciousness serving the Logos role of communicative explorer (a function related in one of its deepest manifestations to the function of the hypothalamically grounded dopaminergic systems).

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