Ep109 "Are you one mind or many drives?" with Jordan Peterson

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Mental Health, Science, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.6 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Is your brain a one-person show or an ensemble cast of rivaling neural networks? How do we manage the conflict between different drives, and what does this have to do with literature, deities, maturation, and what Nietzsche meant when he said “every drive wants to be master, and it attempts to philosophize in that spirit”? Join Eagleman this week with Jordan Peterson as we examine the way lives are built on conflicting wants.

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