Maps of Meaning 12: Final: The Divinity of the Individual
Peterson reflects on the core problem he addressed in the class: why people cling to belief systems and even fight over them.
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Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower
Peterson explores belief systems. They help people assign value and act in the world. Belief systems regulate emotions. They allow cooperation and competition without constant conflict.
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Maps of Meaning 10: Genesis and the Buddha
Peterson examines why people defend belief systems fiercely. These systems guide action and value. They help people cooperate without conflict.
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Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation
Peterson discusses archetypes as universal patterns. They appear in myths, stories, and images. These patterns are deep. They come from human experience across time.
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Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
Peterson explores what makes things most real. Real things last long across time. They appear in many situations. He rejects the idea that humans evolved only on the African veldt. Patterns from all evolutionary history shape people.
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Maps of Meaning 07: Images of Story and Metastory
Peterson explores how basic categories frame the world. These categories appear first in images. They exist long before names or words.
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RealCharlieKirk
The YouTube channel RealCharlieKirk is run by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, and focuses on conservative political commentary, interviews, and discussions.
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Maps of Meaning 06: Story and Metastory (Part 2)
Peterson discusses the human struggle with complexity. Individual consciousness is limited. The world around and inside people is vast and hard to grasp.
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Maps of Meaning 05: Story and Metastory (Part 1)
Peterson explains why people see so little of the world. The brain simplifies reality to help action.
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Maps of Meaning 04: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 3)
Peterson completes the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He covers the final parts of the story.
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Color Spaces
For the longest time we didn’t have to pay a lot of attention to the way we talk about color. The modern display technologies capable of showing more vivid shades have, for better or for worse, changed the rules of the game.
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Maps of Meaning 03: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 2)
Peterson continues the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He links the story to child development and morality. Good parenting lets a child's unique nature emerge.
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Maps of Meaning 02: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 1)
This lecture is the second in the 2017 Maps of Meaning series. Peterson reviews ideas from the first lecture. He stresses that humans see the world through stories. These stories help solve the problem of how to act across time in social groups.
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Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background
Jordan Peterson opens this lecture with personal stories from the 1980s. He describes his fear of nuclear war during the Cold War. He recounts a visit to a decommissioned missile silo.
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Exposing Floating Point
Despite everyday use, floating point numbers are often understood in a hand-wavy manner and their behavior raises many eyebrows.
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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
Today we’re building another world-changing technology, machine intelligence. We know that it will affect the world in profound ways, change how the economy works, and have knock-on effects we can’t predict.
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What Happens Next Will Amaze You
When the Snowden revelations first came to light, it felt like we might be heading towards an Orwellian dystopia. Now we know that the situation is much worse.
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The Internet With A Human Face
I’ve come to believe that a lot of what’s wrong with the Internet has to do with memory. The Internet somehow contrives to remember too much and too little at the same time, and it maps poorly on our concepts of how memory should work.
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Steve Jobs at the D: All Things Digital Conference
There’s lots of video of the late Steve Jobs, primarily from his famous introductions of Apple products over the years, and his oft-quoted Stanford commencement address.
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A Story of Surveillance
He said the NSA built a special room to receive data streamed through an AT&T Internet room containing “peering links,” or major connections to other telecom providers.
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