136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 155 minutes

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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). - Thanks to our sponsors: https://helixsleep.com/jordan - Listen to The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mikhaila-peterson-podcast/id1514043751

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0:59.0	So one of the propositions that I set forth for you last week was that the most real things are the things that are most permanent across time.
1:28.0	And that manifests themselves in the largest number of situations.
1:34.0	And those are the things that you have to map successfully in order to survive.
1:38.0	Survive as individuals, but survive as a species over a very long period of time.
1:43.0	And so the question is, one question is, what are the constants of experience?
1:51.0	If you are a follower of the evolutionary psychologists, and to some degree the evolutionary biologists, but I would say more the psychologists like two B and Cosmetes,
2:07.0	they have a very afro-centric view of human evolution.
2:13.0	The idea basically is that after we diverged from the common-answer and cester between chimpanzees, bonobos, and human beings,
2:24.0	we spent a tremendous amount of time in the African environment, mostly on the veilt, although we're not absolutely certain about that.
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