Video Creator’s Channel Jordan B Peterson

I Dont Know Youve Probably Come Across This Little

diagram in the book and it’s quite a complicated diagram so I’m going to just walk you through it a bit and then I’ll tell you the Egyptian story so this is this is a sequence of interconnected causal loops. So the question might be well, how does morality emerge from the bottom and I would say well especially the morality that’s associated with assuming that attention is something that’s sacred roughly speaking okay so imagine you see someone really engaged in something you might think oh I’d really like to be engaged like that which is what you would think right because everyone wants that it’s like I’d like to be engaged okay So then you might think well. This person looks like they’re fully alive something like that they’re not being obsessed by catastrophes and all that they’re into. What they’re doing what’s that like okay say well that’s associated with creative exploration and then you might say well what why is creative exploration useful and the answer to that is because it can generate adaptive behavior of all sorts okay so then what well, then you can imitate the adaptive behavior because we can use our bodies as representational devices. So we act out the person who’s interested in something so that’s actually in large part.

Why People Like To Buy Art You Know

so lots of people I’ve seen buy art they like to buy art because they also have some contact with the artist and they want to have some contact with the artist because it’s kind of cool to have contact with an artist. It brings something into their life and the artist is definitely someone who’s outside standard hierarchies that’s sort of what defines. An artist so then once you imitate the adaptive behavior, then you can play around with the imitations a bit and you can ritualize them, and then you can dramatize them and a drama is an interesting thing. Once it gets once it gets formalized. You know because basically what you’re doing imagine little kids that get together.

They Lay Out Some Rules For

pretend play. Then they run a sprint and play a simulation then imagine like little Shakespeare junior is off to the side and he’s taken some notes and maybe he watches six or seven different pretend play episodes and he thinks well. This was the most interesting part of that and this was the most interesting part of that. This was the most interesting part of that. I think I’ll put those all together make them coherent.

Well Have A Really Good Story

and what the story is is an articulated representation of a dramatic representation of a set of procedures. It’s two orders of abstraction right and you know this because when you read a book. I mean this doesn’t happen to me anymore, because I think I’ve read too many books, but I can remember when I was a kid when I was reading a book of fiction. It was as if the the the what was being described was playing out in my imagination as embodied figures. So you know sometimes you go to a movie of a book.

Youve Read And You Think Oh That Person

doesn’t look anything like the person in the book. You know because you have a representation of what the person is like I found as I’ve got older that and I don’t really understand this is I. Don’t have that anymore, but I still understand the books so I must have become so Otama ties that that’s all gone it’s it’s a loss. I would say, but anyway it doesn’t matter. You see that once you get the bloody drama written down or even when you can say it.

When You Can Tell A Story, Youre

so close to having the the pattern revealed in an articulated manner. You can’t say what the pattern is, but you can describe it well once you can describe it well. You’re right next to philosophy right as soon as we have a set of dramas that we can all agree on especially once they get written down. Then we can start thinking about the dramas and that’s when philosophy enters the stage as far as I can tell it’s like the groundwork for philosophy is already laid by centuries and centuries of human interaction and we keep abstracting that up to the point where we can represent it and then we can pull out general principles and we discuss them and debate about them, but that’s the birth of philosophy and all those levels interplay like it’s not just the causal direction isn’t just from creative exploration forward it’s each time you add a new level that interacts with the previous level. Right so you can talk about how you’re going to play or you can analyze literature.

You Know Or You Can Think About

what you’re going to write about so so each time you add another level of the capacity for abstraction. You make the whole system much more dynamic and complex. So the causal links that’s why there’s all those arrows on the outside. All of those areas are interacting with each other so yes yeah too many arrows yeah let me show you something here. This is quite cool, see that did I show you that before oh This is so cool it’s mind-boggling this thing okay so the horizontal line.

You See All The Little Squiggles

that are underneath that okay every one of those lines is a biblical verse and that length of the line corresponds to how many references there is to that verse in other places in the book, so you look at the bloody thing man that thing’s hyperlinked like mad and that’s partly why the book the you know think about this book like a normal book really what you do know you go see a movie and there’s a timeline. There’s a beginning and a middle and an end. But it’s a losery right because the person who was writing the movie saw the whole thing at once and so they could use their knowledge of the ending to fiddle around with the beginning, and they could use their knowledge of the middle to fiddle around with the end that doesn’t happen in real life. So you can lay this out now imagine you’ve got a story and it’s like 5,000 years old and 150,000 people have edited it and they all knew the end and the middle and the beginning and they just go like this well. This means this and that refers to this and that refers to this and that refers to this and this means that and well you end up with that it’s like it’s infinitely dense you can’t get to the bottom of it.

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Theres No Way And Really Its

hyperlinked so you I could you could say that in a sense. The Bible is the world’s first fully hyperlinked document weird so yep yes and and part of that’s part of that’s actually conscious like one of the things that people do when they’re criticizing Christianity is say well if you look at the gospel stories for example. They’ll be a little story about Christ and then there’ll be this line that says thus fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy and the Biblical scholars say look that was put in later and the reason it was put in later was because the the hypothesis of the Savior is nested in the Old Testament, and it keeps partially coming true with all these prophets. So a prophet is like a partial Savior and in the Old Testament. Prophets are just popping up like mad and usually what happens is Israel gets degenerate for one reason or another it’s because the king isn’t being a good Marduk basically and so then a prophet who’s very insightful like Nietzsche or Dostoyevsky pops up and says Hey you don’t pay attention to the orphans and the widows and you better get your art together because otherwise God’s gonna come along and like flood you out.

Or Your Enemies Are Gonna Stream In

and of course, often weirdly enough The Kings listen because they think God this person is either completely insane or or God’s talking ding because otherwise he wouldn’t be marching into the court. When I could have his head cut off with one tenths of a seconds or ders. So often they kind of half pay attention, but what happens and this is Dora a Fry’s interpretation fundamentally is that the whole Testament is the construction of an Empire Israel. It’s collapsed because of its failure to follow the fundamental moral order. Then it rises again collapses rises again collapses.

The First Story Like That Is The Flood

right and that’s a really really old story. You know that the Bible doesn’t get quasi historic until Abraham the stories before that so that would be like the creation of the world Adam and. Eve the Tower of Babel Cain and Abel Don’t know that’s later Noah and then then the Abrahamic stories start and that’s more like the history of Israel even though it’s also mythologized, but the first set of stories man those things are old Who knows how old really old 50 thousand years old. Maybe they’re old so anyways What happens across time is that people have all these biblical books and it’s like what the Mesopotamians had to do in order to organize their society it’s like Oh we’ve got all these writings they’re all sacred hypothetically they contradict each other. They don’t seem to be in any order like what are we going to do about that and so then there’s this collaboration of minds across centuries to think Oh well it kind of looks like this might go there and then this might go there and this.

Refers To That And This Refers To

that and so it is that’s Thai It’s trying to it’s the collective imagination of humanity. Trying to make a coherent story out of experience that’s what it is and you know it’s you might say well it’s our best guess is it true depends what you mean by true right that’s a very very tricky question Partly this the question it’s trying to answer is how should you act that’s not the story that’s not a scientific story, but it’s a bloody important question Okay good so Egypt I felt like you know the story of who discovered buoyancy. He ran through the streets Eureka, who was it Archimedes okay so our comedians was trying to figure out how to measure the volume of something and he I think he wanted to figure out how you’d determined whether an alloy was pure. gold or not so you’d have to get the volume of the damn thing and then maybe add a clump of metal.

Theres No Way You Could Measure.

Then he figured out that if you had a tub full of water and you drop the thing in it. The amount of water that spilled over the edges would tell you exactly how big the thing was and then you could weigh your thing your metal and you could tell what proportion of it was gold and so he was so thrilled about that he theoretically. He discovered that when he was in a bathtub he got it in the water spilled over.

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He Ran Naked Through The Streets

of whatever town he was. In yelling Eureka Eureka I’ve got it so so that’s an insight right. So I felt like that when I when I read this Egyptian story and I thought I figured it out so because I thought wow that’s mind boggling so here’s the story so we got to show.

Summary

I don’t know you’ve probably come across this little diagram in the book and it’s quite a complicated diagram so I’m going to just walk you through it a bit and then I’ll tell you the Egyptian story . So the question might be well, how does morality emerge from the bottom and I would say well especially the morality that’s associated with assuming that attention is something that’s sacred roughly speaking okay so imagine you see someone really engaged in something you might think oh I’d really like to be engaged like that which is what you would think right . So then what well, then you can imitate the adaptive behavior because we can use our bodies as representational devices. So we act out the person who’s interested in something so that’s actually in large part.& So then once you imitate the imitations a bit, then you can ritualize them, and then dramatize them and a drama is an interesting thing.& Once it gets once it gets formalized….. Click here to read more and watch the full video