Video Creator’s Channel Jordan B Peterson

So Im Going To Tell You Today About

a way of looking at the world that I think is substantially different from the way that most people look at the world and the way I want to tell you about looking at the world today is I think more inclusive than a standard sort of materialist view of the standard scientific view of the world. Of course is that it’s made up of familiar objects and if the world is in essence a material place, but there’s some very potent limitations of that viewpoint. Despite the fact that it’s given us tremendous power and the limitations are essentially as follows. The essential materialist view can’t tell us anything about consciousness, which is probably the primary fact of experience neuroscientists in recent years, mostly in the last decade of being trying to crack the problem of consciousness and they have absolutely. made no progress.

Theyve Tried To Associate Consciousness With

neuronal activity, but that seems to be an incomplete answer because there’s many forms of neuronal activity in the brain that aren’t accompanied by consciousness at all not only do neuroscientists understand virtually nothing about consciousness they can’t even really figure out what its function is They can’t understand why our brains would go to so much effort to make us aware of things when it isn’t clear at all that awareness is necessary for life, especially given that there are many life forms on the planet that don’t seem to be aware at all the standard materialist view is also insufficient many other ways. It’s insufficient philosophically. I think as you probably all know because a conception that portrays the world is made up of objects is in some really fundamental way dead alright it doesn’t seem to have a. place in it for human beings or replacing it for meaning or a mode whereby you might be able to conceptualize the real existence of something like an emotion or a dream or a motivation. All phenomena which are just as mysterious to neuroscientists and to scientists in general as consciousness now the problem with this seems to be mostly oriental.

If You Have To Ask People What

they know more than anything else. They know number one that they’re conscious. They know number two that their internal experience of life is composed of emotions and motivational states, which although not rational and essential structure are so real and relevant that virtually everything that people do is predicated on them. So our current viewpoint. Despite its ability to give us tremendous technological power seems to eradicate from formal consideration.

Many Many Essential Experiences That Are Vital

to life in fact. Even perhaps primary Nope I’m going to suggest to you today that there’s an alternative viewpoint and I think also it’s one that although you may be hearing about it formally for the first time is also something that you know unbelievably deeply how thousands of years ago. Plato proposed that all knowledge was remembering of course, We don’t believe that today because we believe we gather knowledge as a consequence of contact with the world. But you’ll see today that the knowledge that I’m going to share with you will strike a deep chord of remembering and it’s because everything that you’ve done throughout your life is in one way or another predicated on what I’m going to tell you today. I’m going to demonstrate this in a peculiar way.

I Think Because Im Going To

start by telling you a story and the reason I’m going to do. That is because models of the world that include phenomena like consciousness and emotions, and motivations and actions and interactions are generally portrayed formally in stories and not in scientific theories, and it does turn out to be that stories themselves have an identifiable structure, even a grammar that makes them comprehensible. Furthermore, it turns out that even the simplest stories, especially if they’re elegantly constructed, have an unbelievably profound underlying meaning and you can frequently see this most particularly in children’s stories, so I remember I showed my son when he was four years old. The Disney movie Pinocchio which on the surface of it is a very strange tale right. It’s a wooden puppet who wants to become real so he has to rescue his father in the belly of a whale, a structure that could by no means be considered rational, that is in fact so surprising.

And Unexpected That Its Remarkable To Imagine That

grown men and women, including children can sit in a movie theater and watch a story like that unfold without ever thinking for a second that it’s absolutely peculiar that they can be taken in by such a tale and regard it experientially as real. Pinocchio is a deep deep story. It has echoes that go back three or four thousand years to the earliest stories that we know and it’s so rich with information that a child can watch it over and over and over and over. I think my son wants Pinocchio thirty times why well it’s either because a child can’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality or it’s because there’s something to those stories that’s much more potent than we actually consciously understand it’s kind of interesting too you know if you go to a sort of. video rental establishment You’ll find that in the top ten highest grossing movies of all time are for Disney movies that are animated fairy tales, essentially retelling of mythological stories.

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They Strike A Deep Chord Why

all Shakespeare was of course, a great literary figure said it perhaps better than anyone else has, which is not surprising because he said many things better than anyone else has he said all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts and so following from that you can imagine that a story is no more about the props in the world than a play that you go see is about the props on the stage. A drama is about the manner in which people actually exist the emotions that they feel the motivational. states they encounter the problems they have to solve when they interact with each other and the plays the thing from that particular perspective in which we can capture those aspects of our experience that are not only real but essentially human. I’m going to tell you a little story to begin this off with it’s a kids story written for children of about four years of age, but it’s very very elegant.

I Tried To Cut It Down For This

talk. But I found I couldn’t because it was so well edited that every single piece of it had to fit in to make the story complete and I’m going to show you first the structure of the story now. This is a very useful diagram in many ways it’s very simple basically. It says this whenever you’re doing anything you inhabit a bounded world now you know like for example, you’re sitting here In this lecture. There’s things you are paying attention to and things you’re not if I took most of you out of this room right now and asked you definitively what color the rug was you wouldn’t know or what color your chair was for example, or what the person next to you was wearing and blessed that person happens to be your husband or your wife you wouldn’t remember any of those things and the reason for that is when you’re in a situation like this and you’re attending to a speaker.

Most Of The Occurrences That Are Unfolding

around you are irrelevant. You don’t store them you only focus on certain things well, how do you decide what to focus on given that there’s virtually unlimited number. of things to pay attention to well? You have to conceive of yourself as being somewhere always and you have to conceive of yourself as going somewhere so you could say in in a real sense the world you inhabit is a journey. It’s a journey from point A to point B a journey from what is to what should be a journey from the place. You are which is insufficient in some important manner to a place that in some important matter is going to be better.

A Standard Story Has Exactly That

structure child comes home and you say well what happened to you today on the way to school setting up the little narrative structure in the childhood unfold the sequence of events that he encountered. If the story’s more interesting than just a recount of exactly what happened to it usually involves the encounter with something. Unexpected on the way to Point B and a description of the manner in which that encounter with the unexpected was resolved typical story now. Why would you want to know that why would you want to listen to it well? It’s because on your journey from Point A to Point B. All sorts of unexpected things always happen and if someone else has encountered something unexpected and conjured up a decent solution to it it could well be worth your time to listen well.

Maybe Theres A Pattern To Encountering

unexpected things. Maybe there’s a proper way to encounter the unexpected Maybe. It’s the case that in our collective wisdom as human beings we’ve gathered up representations of ways to encounter the unexpected that we put forth in our stories. How should you face what you don’t understand well now I’m going to tell you this story it’s written. For four-year-old kids, but I want you to take a look at it for a moment from a different perspective and see if you can imagine exactly what it is that it’s say there’s no such thing as a dragon well.

We All Know That Right A Dragon

is a fictitious creature reptilian terrible lives forever breathes fire hoards gold strange combination of attributes why would something terrible and ancient hold a treasure. Billie Bixby was rather surprised when he woke up one morning and found a dragon in his room. It was a small dragon about the size of a kitten. The dragon wagged its tail happily when Billy patted its head it’s interesting you know in Chinese mythology, Dragon is a positive figure in European mythology. The dragon is something to face in combat and destroy or something to face in combat and build something out of the pieces left over from the dragon.

Billy Went Downstairs To Tell His Mother.

It’s no such thing as a dragon said Billy’s mother and she said it like she meant it remember once my daughter had a nightmare. She’s about four. This was at the time when she first started to notice graffiti and litter and both graffiti and Leonard bothered her.

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She Couldnt Understand The Motivations Behind

the graffiti artist and she didn’t like the fact that there was litter cluttering up the world’s order and the reason she got sensitive to that as a child was because children are really really dependent on order right. I mean and the reason for that is that their realm of competence is rather restricted, so they’d like to see things. Mac. messed up so little kids.

For Example, Theyre Not Happy With You If

you play a game with them and then mess around with the rules of the game. They don’t like that at all. They think that that’s immoral activity to shake up the structure of the game well anyways well she was pondering all this she came into our bedroom one night and said Dad I had a nightmare now we all know right nightmares aren’t real just like Dragons dreams aren’t real of.

Summary

The essential materialist view can’t tell us anything about consciousness, which is probably the primary fact of experience neuroscientists in recent years, mostly in the last decade of being trying to crack the problem of consciousness and they have absolutely.& made no progress. They’ve tried to associate consciousness with neuronal activity, but that seems to be an incomplete answer because there’s many forms of neuronal activity in the brain that aren’t accompanied by consciousness at all . Many forms of . consciousness in the . brain that are not accompanied by . consciousness . at all not only do neuroscientificists understand virtually nothing about consciousness they can’t even really figure out what its function is. They can’t understand why our brains would go to so much effort to make us aware of things when it isn’t clear at all that awareness is necessary for life . The standard materialist . view is also insufficient many other ways. & It’s insufficient philosophically.& It’s also insufficient philosophately. The view is insufficient ….. Click here to read more and watch the full video