2015 Maps of Meaning Lecture 03a: Narrative, Neuropsychology & Mythology I (Part 1)

It can be argued that the brain has two modes of operation: one for explored territory, and the other for unexplored territory. It is representations of those twin territories that makes up a major part of the foundation for narrative and mythology.
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  • @vardankhachatryan5503
    @vardankhachatryan55036 жыл бұрын

    God. He delivers so much that my brain overheats. Rewatching again and again. And the video is barely 29k views. Yet his appearance on discussions of "political"/"sensitive" issues is 1 mil views. Guys, you are missing the right stuff.

  • @Aaronisification

    @Aaronisification

    5 жыл бұрын

    Vardan Khachatryan indeed!

  • @k8tina

    @k8tina

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree!!

  • @stevencruz4937

    @stevencruz4937

    4 жыл бұрын

    the prime time news sells drama.

  • @jobengals86

    @jobengals86

    4 жыл бұрын

    You’ll get more familiar with his core dialogue - it’s fundamentally the same (the big words he uses); i personally had to use a dictionary the first few weeks of watching his content lol. Beyond worth it

  • @Cruelidea69

    @Cruelidea69

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed!

  • @Yourfinaltragedy
    @Yourfinaltragedy3 жыл бұрын

    The tips he gave in the beginning were a hidden gem I wasn't expecting but I'm glad to have to learned. J.P. is so generous with his knowledge and I'm grateful. The man himself is a gem.

  • @k8tina
    @k8tina4 жыл бұрын

    He is a phenomenal speaker and highly intelligent with the concepts he expresses -- I thoroughly enjoy listening & (re-)learning psychology from him!!

  • @k8tina

    @k8tina

    4 жыл бұрын

    ^^^Side note: I received my Bachelor's degree in Psychology and my Master's degree in Forensic Psychology alittle over 20 years ago, but I abandoned my 'dream job' to start a family (no regrets though!! My children are awesome & a blessing!!); and these class lectures are very refreshing and make me want to return to the psychology field.

  • @CrystaTiBoha
    @CrystaTiBoha7 жыл бұрын

    This is unspeakably enlightening. The dancing, cultural differences, my efforts to write a book on philosophy, how I deal with people,... My whole world is affected.

  • @MilesQuickster

    @MilesQuickster

    6 жыл бұрын

    Let me know how it goes.

  • @TheYanbibiya
    @TheYanbibiya7 жыл бұрын

    These lectures are so rich in knowledge and intrigue they should really be delivered at one word per minute.

  • @thelol77
    @thelol776 жыл бұрын

    46:54 beginning of one of the most interesting parts of JBP's ideas. Namely, that we actually perceive and THINK in narratives

  • @lisasteward6945
    @lisasteward69453 жыл бұрын

    I love him more each time I see/ hear/ listen to him

  • @Bakiniyorum
    @Bakiniyorum3 жыл бұрын

    Every night before i go to sleep, i feed my brain with the professor.

  • @trentw.3566

    @trentw.3566

    Жыл бұрын

    I listen to him a lot. Just keep in mind he missed the boat with meditation....

  • @omerfarukgungorf

    @omerfarukgungorf

    11 ай бұрын

    @@trentw.3566what do you mean

  • @trentw.3566

    @trentw.3566

    11 ай бұрын

    @@omerfarukgungorf I mean he thinks mindfulness is a fad and has never tried sitting meditation, has never been in Samadhi. He does some kundalini yoga tho. Mindfulness as a buzzword may be a fad but meditation is far more powerful than his vague notions about meditating. That's all I'm saying---he is spiritual but in a limited way.

  • @ellieschmitz7837
    @ellieschmitz78378 жыл бұрын

    Very very very thankful to you professor , for your eye opening lectures ,your lectures enlightened my proses of understanding how it actually works in humankind (mind)..,what a relief.. :)

  • @absolutelynoone9723
    @absolutelynoone97236 жыл бұрын

    I have been disabled since birth. I must always question the base nature of a thing so I can get from it what I need because it rarely gives it to me in the way it was meant to. From the common fork to the job place I have found this to be true.

  • @torlumnitor8230
    @torlumnitor82306 жыл бұрын

    This video made Indiana Jones fear everything.

  • @bartdebruin12
    @bartdebruin128 жыл бұрын

    Extremely thankful for your content and incredible value!

  • @ericvrenios5854
    @ericvrenios58547 жыл бұрын

    This one was really abstract, a particularly interesting lecture

  • @grmanstar
    @grmanstar3 жыл бұрын

    One hell of a way to articulate problems with my laptop. Ima use this next time I go to the service center.

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    What a beautiful day to sit outside and read the gospel.

  • @j.c.chandler8748
    @j.c.chandler87487 жыл бұрын

    I love the tie... I couldn't pull it off but Jordan can :-)

  • @untamedpandasweg8986

    @untamedpandasweg8986

    6 жыл бұрын

    J. C. Chandler I can't handle the thought of leaving my highly Politicized reply on your innocent comment. I don't want the negative memory in the minds of the people that would see them together, in respect to my theory that you're dead because of inactivity..

  • @OokamiKageGinGetsu

    @OokamiKageGinGetsu

    6 жыл бұрын

    You could pull it off if it's a clip-on.

  • @bogme
    @bogme5 жыл бұрын

    This guy's the effin MAN!

  • @daneumurianpiano7822
    @daneumurianpiano78222 жыл бұрын

    I'm reminded of biologist Richard Collings' book _Random Designer: Created from chaos to connect with the Creator_.

  • @ChrisSchiebelbein
    @ChrisSchiebelbein9 жыл бұрын

    This lecture had a bunch of juicy information in it. Too bad we can't see the slides (lucky for me I had already seen the "basketball" experiment)

  • @frost.0707

    @frost.0707

    2 жыл бұрын

    No fair

  • @Drew15000
    @Drew150008 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much

  • @armundescarey2881
    @armundescarey28819 ай бұрын

    Can’t believe these videos are free

  • @priyanshuahirwar8165
    @priyanshuahirwar8165 Жыл бұрын

    His words never misses the target...God

  • @archanglemercuri
    @archanglemercuri Жыл бұрын

    We made this same visual comparison in the same year - it was during 2015 our first year at Seattle University; it was an art project made of clipped magazines and such

  • @starrmary4093
    @starrmary40938 ай бұрын

    This guy's amazing I'm currently working on his Maps of Meaning book and its amazing and I highly recommend following along with it

  • @simonearmando1340

    @simonearmando1340

    5 ай бұрын

    it's an extremely complex book... I'm reading it too but only a few pages per week. how'd you find it?

  • @Ren-1979
    @Ren-197910 ай бұрын

    This was totally worth it just for the first 1:30 min. :-)

  • @iCockaine
    @iCockaine5 жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @nkatekodouglaszitha787
    @nkatekodouglaszitha787 Жыл бұрын

    Lol Jordan Peterson must be the biggest consumer of Coke Zero I've ever seen.

  • @freebutoh
    @freebutoh5 жыл бұрын

    23:33 a great definition of the subbody (butoh dance)

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Truly as a box of alabaster ointment the gospel spreads with each hit.

  • @mattstockmal8167
    @mattstockmal81672 жыл бұрын

    I really like JP before the world defined who he should be. But when he was just his awkward but genuine self

  • @trentw.3566

    @trentw.3566

    Жыл бұрын

    Awkward and genuine. That's a pretty accurate description. Also endlessly curious.

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Chris cramers Last email to me that mattered was about the point of intersection of two lines.

  • @mellohi2899
    @mellohi28996 жыл бұрын

    30:55 note to self

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Laurel Moody in Edward's hall and mom are the same point now. In judo Christianity that's called fulfillment of the law. It's like algebraic simplification.

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Hey cru I have good follow through in pickleball just like frisbe!

  • @JaytheCraze
    @JaytheCraze7 жыл бұрын

    I think it would be an interesting challenge to revise this lecture for the visually impaired (got the idea because as mentioned below, one can't see the slides- thought I bet they're online somewhere from former students etc. I looked up the "basketball experiment" in a separate window) - I found that the various narrative "walkthroughs" (e.g. the laptop example ~36min) were immediately " imaginable" but - oh btw this not a PC hassle it's about the disposition of language in the mind (the brain? the pinky?)- trying to imagine the slides (like the schematics drawing from cybernetic theory) was an interesting challenge (I don't have any eye problems but a relative recently suffered some, so maybe that's on my mind...) Either way, this whole series is truly impressive.

  • @labornurse

    @labornurse

    4 жыл бұрын

    I dont think anyone not actually in the room can see it. I have 20/15 vision and cant see the video on the projector.

  • @frost.0707
    @frost.07072 жыл бұрын

    I want him to be my professor so bad.

  • @CSCJAMES

    @CSCJAMES

    2 жыл бұрын

    🕵‍♂️

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    If my old pothead friends bring weed to Cincinnati I'll smoke and Bible study on the porch with them seriously!

  • @samsa8687
    @samsa86873 ай бұрын

    I absolutely love these but the ads interrupt the video every 5 minutes for me. He never finishes an idea before an ad stops the video.

  • @herhere4714
    @herhere47143 жыл бұрын

    this is enlightening if you know how to read body language

  • @trentw.3566

    @trentw.3566

    Жыл бұрын

    Please say more. What do you see?

  • @michaelgallagher2092
    @michaelgallagher20922 жыл бұрын

    👍 Snakes. Why did it have to be Snakes?

  • @rogerarmendariz4639
    @rogerarmendariz46394 жыл бұрын

    53:12

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Mother the Bible has lessons about anxiety call father and ask.

  • @houstonenfield630
    @houstonenfield6304 жыл бұрын

    9:43

  • @saharalessa6107
    @saharalessa61077 ай бұрын

    26:23

  • @gudmunduragustsson5872
    @gudmunduragustsson58723 жыл бұрын

    my man here dressed like the Riddler from Batman

  • @aleksakopcic2413
    @aleksakopcic24132 жыл бұрын

    00:58

  • @sgt1terrence
    @sgt1terrence3 жыл бұрын

    None of this seems complex since I'm 31 and have experience in a lot of subjects he talks about..especially alcoholism..and kids sit there lost as shit until their actually confronted by morality and our flaws as individuals..sounds like my dad. (My father talked about how easy it was to turn to the the darkside..now you got people on youtube saying anakin became Darth Vader because the jedi order didnt give anakin a chance when anakin had alot of flaws he didnt work on personally..referenced The Force to me as a child ha..nerd but a hunter and outdoorsman..he probably read old star wars books ha) I've been a man for a while now and my dad hasn't had the need to lecture in forever so Jordan's words help at any age.....man he's arming them for life so they dont have to experience my bullshit...thank you jordan Peterson for making the world that much of a better place..now we gotta help him ripple outward

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Mom I was converted because the cops told me to do that and I had nothing to lose.

  • @carlpeterson8279
    @carlpeterson82793 жыл бұрын

    35:46 the lecture strays into electrical engineering

  • @adangelor
    @adangelor5 жыл бұрын

    Well: that seems to me a contradiction: if evolution goes from simpler to complex, and entropy goes from complex to simpler forms, then how evolution can be possible without external intervention? The biopoiesis (generation of living complex structures from simpler inert elements) is something still unexplained in science, and contradicts entropy principle.

  • @steviereads4267

    @steviereads4267

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hello there! I think the external intervention you are looking for is the sun. Entropy, as I understand it, is a principle of thermodynamics which states that reactions within a closed system tend towards a disorganised state since disorganisation/"simplicity" is energetically and statistically favourable. If you view earth as the closed system then it does not makes sense for it to getting more complex. Luckily for us the sun is providing the majority of the energy needed to "counteract" entropy. But, as earth "loses" entropy, the sun itself is gaining much, much more. So the system of sun + earth has increasing entropy as a whole.

  • @mennehgambia1962

    @mennehgambia1962

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@steviereads4267 oh ok, I thought he was building up a god or intelligent design argument. Great response

  • @BeginTheCrusade
    @BeginTheCrusade3 жыл бұрын

    Why does this have so few views

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Mother if you let me take 2 classes and work with me on caffeine sobriety under christ those are consistent with my religious beliefs.

  • @butterflyfilms939
    @butterflyfilms9395 жыл бұрын

    Damn you lost some weight throughout the years, nice!

  • @OmarDelawar
    @OmarDelawar5 жыл бұрын

    He got the definition of entropy wrong @17:25, simple things decay into more complex forms due to entropy - complex things DO NOT decay into simpler forms as stated in the video - that would be tremendous if that were true! People wouldn't have to do a thing and everything would be orderly!

  • @angelkalathas

    @angelkalathas

    3 жыл бұрын

    Complex doesn't necessarily mean orderly. Take a Pollock painting, for instance. It's the best artistic depiction of entropy I know. Entropy is moving towards disorder and a helicopter that works to a helicopter that plummets to the ground is enough entropy if you ask me.

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Dude read Matthew 26:7-13 he's describing weed!!

  • @MilesQuickster
    @MilesQuickster6 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if most people on here have Reddit..

  • @isaacsblogs9512

    @isaacsblogs9512

    4 жыл бұрын

    Miles Quickster yes

  • @factopedia1054
    @factopedia10545 ай бұрын

    Any one from India?

  • @hpbertin
    @hpbertin2 жыл бұрын

    IT IS a real pitty that the Video ist corupted by comercials in a rapid Turn that gets me Out of the toppic every time IT Happens. I dont understand why the comercials cant bei in the beginning or end only, If you have a Message to the world, thank why would you interuped IT by comercials?

  • @ginabrogan1825

    @ginabrogan1825

    10 ай бұрын

    Schizo

  • @Ant3_14

    @Ant3_14

    3 ай бұрын

    That you can use addblock.

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Bruh my mom said I'm not a man I'm like so?

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Logan, Samuel, on future potus if you still smoke weed smoke a bowl to the gospel on the porch outside on a beautiful day. I guarantee you'll convert eventually.

  • @Teachingcasuals
    @TeachingcasualsАй бұрын

    I wish i could just ask someone why do i know all this and everything naturally? I know its god but why.

  • @Teachingcasuals

    @Teachingcasuals

    Ай бұрын

    Every time i start to read a book or listen to a lecture i always know what is being said.

  • @BlindEyeJones
    @BlindEyeJones7 жыл бұрын

    Some thoughts: You are not the sum of your parts, you are the thing that sums up the parts. There is no line between you and the world, there is only the world... which is you. The word "usually" is not a problem, but the solution to problems. You don't have to know everything to know something. To understand that 2+2=4 doesn't mean you have to know all of mathematics. You can't really use incomplete knowledge as as good a argument for pragmatism. There is no real AI. When I start my computer and it says "welcome" does it mean it? No. Does it understand it? No. How do we know that we have free choice? Maybe our choice is really determined on some biological, psychological level and it only appears free? Freedom is slavery, in some Orwellian understanding of the body.

  • @dementare

    @dementare

    7 жыл бұрын

    I may return to challenge some of your other points, but on the concept of "Real AI".. if you haven't seen the learning that computerized neural networks are doing, or what Watson is capable of... I understand, if you have then I don't know how you don't see that very soon if not already in a lab somewhere there is a computer equivalent of the intelligence of lower animals and is only a matter time before we match and surpass our own.

  • @BlindEyeJones

    @BlindEyeJones

    7 жыл бұрын

    Intelligence is not the same as consciousness. Chess programs show intelligence, but there is no consciousness.

  • @dementare

    @dementare

    7 жыл бұрын

    I agree, but you did not say artificial "Consciousness", you said AI, and I'm not talking chess games, I'm talking video games, The mario games are a good example, still no consciousness yet, but if you think that it's not on the way there, you are mistaken.

  • @BlindEyeJones

    @BlindEyeJones

    7 жыл бұрын

    I don't think consciousness will ever be artificially produced. It's a spiritual commodity. You sound like a religious person for having "faith" that science can in fact produce material miracles. There is a limit to the materialism of science. Even something like numbers can't be explained materially. We don't see 2 and 3 walking down the street arm in arm and yet we use numbers in our everyday calculations. They are not of this material world...

  • @dementare

    @dementare

    7 жыл бұрын

    You sound like a religious person for assuming it's of a "Spiritual" origin and not a Natural one. Consciousness is *not* in the same realm as "numbers". And speaking of numbers, computers do not see 2s and 3s, or the much more complex and irrational numbers, walking down the street and they use them all the time with a greater understanding of their accuracy than we do.

  • @ascendrio
    @ascendrio2 жыл бұрын

    Looking back on it after all the years, these were always my favorite lectures. The more he got involved with the politically correct stuff - the less I started following his material.

  • @trentw.3566

    @trentw.3566

    Жыл бұрын

    That part made him rich. Can't blame him for leaning into the money. No he has no worries for his family, so least not the worries of a poor person.

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Mom my recommendation is read the gospel of Jesus christ and just think about it like it's any other book.

  • @thomasslynch1
    @thomasslynch14 жыл бұрын

    Someone needs to buy Jordan a MacBook

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm9 ай бұрын

    Mom I believe your gender is between you and god.

  • @Yetoob8lWuxUQnpAahSqEpYkyZ
    @Yetoob8lWuxUQnpAahSqEpYkyZ6 жыл бұрын

    I thought this was obvious...