2017 Personality 15: Biology/Traits: The Limbic System 

The full papers are free on his website. That's incredibly nice

Sorting myself out a little each day

Wow, what a genius! I have listened to over a hundred hours of his videos, and I am still amazed at how brilliant he is , how much knowledge he possesses and his ability to communicate so clearly these very complex ideas.

Jordan Peterson videos are the only videos that I occasionally think: "I should take notes!" On the other hand, I send them ALL to my 'favorites.'

8:15 - can you IMAGINE getting a fan letter from Dr Peterson? Think i'd just retire right then.

World-class education from home! Thanks, Professor!

I enjoy listening to JP's college courses running in the background while I play simulation video games. I never finished high school and work in the trades so it's nice to be mentally/abstractedly stimulated in my down time.

Dr. Peterson is such a gift & so are his lectures!

"What that means, at least in part is that you guys are all the beneficiaries, lets say, of an evolutionary process that's basically been going on since the beginning of life, and that's about 3.5 billion years ago. ... and poof.. you're the stellar consequence of 3.5 billion years of... effort.. and death. And now look at you. You can't even clean your damned room. "

"Way back when we were frogs..." Some of us still are, professor. :)

when a professor get applause at the end of a lecture you know its a good lecture.

THIS COULD BECOME RULE NUMBER 13: DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO ANYTHING THAT INST DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO THE DESIRABLE OUTCOME. This is GOLD. THANK YOU JBP

Listening from France. Ive been hoping to listen to somebody like him developing all these topics all my life...Its fantastic ! Young students probably dont realise how lucky they are ! Im going to listen to all your videos and carry with the 17 vidéos on the Bible . Thats a miracle of Internet with the opening to knowledge. Merci merci !! 💙

Oh boy I just finished lecture 14 and this pops up! Thank you very much for posting these, Mr. Peterson. I love your work and you are truly changing the way I view life.

35:00 onwards is absolutely fantastic! The value in understanding this is immeasurable, especially if your primary goal is psychotherapy, or other such helping professions; even diplomacy and other such important political and military affairs! There are multiple ways of looking at the world! Literally, different ways of looking at the information; even to the idea of what information actually is, what is defined as worth being known. What you see, is determined by your fundamental values - and these values are not even close the capacity of the individual to consciously choosing their own values - it is much deeper than that; fundamental values determine perception; perception determines what you see, and values determine how you will see it. It is much deeper than this, and I can't even scratch the surface yet, but to understand this is so very helpful. Then it is a matter of learning the skills through committed discipline of more accurate communication abilities, and the ability to control ones emotional reactions in conversations that you find repugnant; because for the aforementioned reasons - because the way that you look at the world is different and how you look at the world is different; perhaps even more strange, that they way you do this, in relevance to the set of topics at hand, may be inaccurate.

That’s how you realise you become a fan: when 90% of the most amazing things you’ve heard about in 2020 are coming from a single person: Jordan Peterson

Jordan confirms Abraham Maslow's findings that our most basic motivations are our most powerful ones. It is best to understand how we are designed.

i tell you guys, what here happens, with this lectures, is something really unusual and special. Never before we had such a chance for high quality education, without university. Thank you Jordan Peterson, you set a large standard for human behavior, so that we can overcome the nihilism.

WOW!!! So INTERESTING!!!!!!!! FYI: I once was jogging down a remote trail, (in moderately weather, mid September, in Northern Minnesota, in the BWCAW, checking out a "portage" route), not expecting to encounter anything "unusual", when I suddenly, just happened to glance down where my foot was going to land, and saw a small snake, resting, right where I could've stepped! I was able to side-step and avoid injuring the snake, and I could quickly tell that the snake was just as startled as I was, as it was trying to also react quickly enough to get out of my way, as I approached it so suddenly! It was something which I will Always remember, and, It really helps me to remember your Brilliant, and fascinating lecture about these AMAZING topics! I LOVE your AWESOME Lectures!!! THANKS!!!

He broke character! The good Doctor has jokes! :D

It warms my heart that this has 200k views

15:15 Complexity of reality and the brain 1:02:12 your brain isn't the only thing that creates reactions, your whole body is your brain 1:12:03 Parietal lobe damage to the right = you lose the left side of everything and ability to recognise the left side. 1:16:35 Cortex and consciousness, humans can remain conscious even with significant damage to the cerebral cortex (we don't know where it's located). maybe everywhere inside and outside the body?

A complete 1 hour lecture for free right here on RU-vid; what an age we live in! There is such a wealth of information on this platform it boggles my mind why anybody would continue paying for a College education, at least for the didactic years. No wonder the inequalities are becoming so massive with the technology available. Anyone not taking advantage of this will unfortunately be left behind; that's a lot of people right now.

19:36 I was like *"Heck yeah I spotted the gorilla! AND I counted number of passes right!"* 19:47 *" **_ECH_** sonofabitch... you got me"*

That is amazingly fascinating. I dropped our of college due to chronic incurable illness but I miss learning so much! Love you, Dr. Peterson!

12:00 The ancient part of the brain is in charge 17:30 We only sense a tiny amount of what's in the world 58:00 Sponges, the brain is in the whole body 1:06:00 Feeling uneasy can be a perception. Signals map all over your nervous system

Seeing the interaction between the students is quite amazing, he feeds off there energy and they love it.

i subjected myself to a 4 day fast. it was amazing. it felt amazing

"Bounded by our expectations and desires". This is painfully true.

I like that he draws from material in scientific disciplines other than psychology and manages to integrate them into his lecture.

You can say whatever you want about his opinions, but can we at least all agree that this man is an absolute GEM of a teacher?

"You would have been dead years ago because--- what do you know about livers?" - J. Bae Petey, 2k14

If only everyone had the open and willingness to learn more about them selves ...

If I watch ALL of Peterson's videos, can I atleast get a bachelor's for googling every big ass word he spews?

Honest to God probably the best lecture I’ve ever watched in any field of study

1:10:25 i love when he puts his own experience of thought and insight into the theories he explains. It shows the unbeliveable attention he pays when reading through literature as if he incorporated his entire being into the insights provided by the literature to form his verry own ideas and thoughts out of it. I love this mans thinking.

Love your lectures. Indeed "as many neuronal conections as stars (not particles) in the observable univers". You're enlightning.

Im loving this classes, please keep uploading this awsome content. Also tank you so much for sharing this unvaluable knowledge.

Imagine being fortunate enough to be in one of Jordan's classes...that'd be amazing

I am so grateful and thankful 🙏 that all this wealth of knowledge is available for free. I can tolerate the annoying ads any time 😊 Thank you!

I recommend lissening to classic music while watching jordan. Its something special

This man is a genius.He articulates information in a very interesting fashion.

PETERSON Lectures on you tube IS an education……..better then any “ university “ 🤺

I'm thinking that my life is getting longer, because of each minute of this video I have something to learn and it does me be satisfied like being in an entire class just in 10 minutes. So, here I have 7 classes on my own

Love these lectures so much! One thing that would be awesome is know hear what the students are asking or saying. (Or maybe just their questions posted on the screen in text). I have never had the desire to learn about psychology and philosophy until I started watching Peterson's lectures. I now have his book, and my room is very orderly.

I've never been bored listening to doctor Peterson.

Whenever I finish listening to one of Dr Peterson’s podcasts or lectures I feel a) incredibly enlightened and inspired, and it’s like fireworks of new information and patterns go off inside my head, and b) incredibly humbled by the realisation that I don’t know ANYTHING really xD It’s a weird and yet exhilarating combination.

This conscious energy in a meat suit is everything to me! I love this man and since listening to him my life has been on an incredible incline!

And that's that.

28:00 " When you are focusing on the basketball , all the black moving things look the same" Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

I freaking LOVE your lectures! I would love to take all of your courses (will full syllabi, reading lists, blackboard discussion board, etc) if you ever offer all of them! Signing up for your personality course--hoping its a full university style course!!! :D

I hate how much fun these lectures are. As a math major, anything past, say, evolutionary biology or neuroscience is a no-go. JP makes it really alluring though. Engages that sleeping psychologist and philosopher in me.

@58:55 I've gone without food for 10 days, on two separate occasions... and both instances were between the ages of 13 and 17. As an adult, I usually eat one meal a day, and it's almost always after sunset. I also regularly skip a day too, where I eat nothing at all. (roughly every 10 days or so) I can tell you that hunger pains or the drive to find food, peaks after 3 or 4 days, then declines again... and for me, was completely gone in about a week. (I only felt hungry when I thought about food, so my solution was... Try to Think about Something Else) I have not been to a doctor (outside of the emergency room) in almost 30 years, and I have smoked a pack to a pack and a half or cigarettes a day for 35 years, and I can still blow out a candle from about 15 feet away. I don't know why that is, or even why I'm telling you all this... but, here we are.

Motivation->Intentionality->Perception both physically and in term of perception of meaning, (if there is a distinction).

Simulate catastrophic outcome, yet we go do exactly these things

The reason why most of us feel like we are in our heads is because four out of our five senses through which we collect all the informations are located in our heads.

I love this guy. "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan, really help set the basis for his argument. It's nice to see great thinkers...gives ya hope.

The best man in the world right now.

You know you’re a badass when your students applaud what would be a mundane lecture from anyone else

My college courses no longer appeals to me, but this …. This is golden.

And just like that....I feel like I'm back in graduate school....completely enveloped and perfectly stimulated!

It gave life meaning, and the ending affirmation was a an affirmation of the flatness, nonuniqueness of life, the only thing making it bearable, being sociality...

For this professor, I would read the optional papers. Only for him.

I think the primary reason I feel that "me" is in the head is because hitting my head disrupts the "me" easiest, compared to other parts of the body. Even a relatively low impact blow (enough to produce mild concussion or even just dizziness) disrupts or warps my experience of me and the world, consciousness basically. Whereas a similar low impact blow to, say, the leg typically only disrupts the leg. I've also had some trouble with sensitive nerves in my elbow, and when I have a problem there, I can feel the pain shock traveling up the arm, and when it hits the neck/head is when I black out. So if I think of "me" as the entity doing the perception of the world, and head is where you shut that down the EASIEST, then that's an example of how one would intuitively arrive at the "self is in the head" conclusion.

Infinite levels of analysis

I miss this JP❤....doing what he love shining like a sun 🌠

When he mentioned the gorilla experiment I thought 'well seen that before', I was not prepared for what was coming in that clip. Incredible.

- Motivation set goals (how you see the world), emotions orient in relationship to your goals - Each motivation is a subset of your personality - Cortex never wins against hypothalamus (keeps you alive) - Cortex (newly evolved part of brain) only controls when nothing is bothering you. If you deviate from normality, primordial brain takes control

I'm so sad there's an end to this playlist

God bless you for being so generous with your lectures

Peterson is a great professor. I think the lectures are where he is at his best. It's good to see his swordsmanship on debates, but there he is usually angrier, and pushed to talk about things that are not his area of expertise.

What he says about seeing the snake and jumping into the air without having first gone through a real thought process is so true. I'm really scared of snakes and I tend to scream when I'm suddenly and unexpectedly seeing one. I've been known to scream in a pet shop when I turned the wrong corner and all of a sudden saw a snake in its terrarium. One time I experienced a scream and run episode where I really didn't have time to really see the snake before I reacted, just like professor Peterson explained. I was helping some friends to move some furniture into their house. They were living upstairs and they had a storage room on ground floor where the new furniture was carried into from the moving trailer. My boyfriend and one of the guys living in the flat were carrying a sofa or something into the storage room and I was behind them telling them which way to turn etc. The other guy who lived in the flat too came walking down the stairs. He held his arm weirdly pointing forward and I remember thinking: "Why is he holding his arm so strangely?" Then I noticed a long blotch of light color on his arm and I can't remember which came first. Did the idea of a snake flash in my head first or did I first start screaming and then directly had the idea of a snake flash in my mind? I let out such a bloodcurdling scream that the guys had never heard anything like it and I ran back through the open door into the backyard where I stood screaming and shaking until my boyfriend came to hold me and got me to calm down enough to stop screaming. The guy had meant to scare my boyfriend by sneaking up on him with his pet snake, but that plan was foiled by my reaction. The snake was no longer than his forearm and maybe as thick as his thumb. When I started screaming and running, there were 2 guys and a sofa between me and the snake, and the distance was maybe 5-6 meters. I really couldn't see it well enough under the circumstances to know consciously that it really was a snake. I don't remember even seeing any movement which would have told me that it was a living thing on his arm. Somehow my monkey brain just recognized it as a snake and off I went.

Someone with more time on their hands than me, and bloody high resolution earphones, please include subtitles for the student interactions.

¡MAGISTRAL! 🙏 Love hear you laughing 😄 Come back soon 📖 💛🌻

Thank you for sharing your EXCELLENT lectures on youtube! I hope to meet you some day even if only for a quick hello and a handshake.

thank's professor Peterson, huge entertaining and inspiring lessons.

Thank you Dr Peterson

Thank you Dr. Peterson! God bless

This is one brilliant person.

I perceive myself through my head because I am primarily visual and then auditory - almost ignorant to my other senses.

wow... i experiment with psychedelics and zen buddhism and this info is very enlightening and also close to what i was suspecting but couldnt describe in neurobiology language..

Brilliant lecture! 👏

Milton Friedman's pencil analogy makes a lot of sense now in a different light.

Awesome lecture

28:35 "has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not you can complete the task. so it doesnt matter if you ignore the information." big true.

Its a nice time to live. I can have a top university level class while i wait for my doctor appointment.

How can there be more connections in the brain than subatomic particles in the universe?

The comparison of consciousness to a video camera recording its own display screen is very interesting. Only our video camera distorts the image which leads to us not knowing ourselves

The big 5 ties into economics and business pretty well, there is a predictability of how organizations will perform during fluctuations in the market.

I think I feel myself as a whole transparent version of myself. I was thinking about this after I had a dream a few days ago, Where I laid down to die. I was aware of the dead me, while I was aware of the me sleeping, but the only one that projected thought was the spirit me looking down at my body and recognizing all my other versions of me.

@Jordan B Peterson What are your thoughts on the DSM 5?

Hi Jordan. I think you'd be interested in the sonic equivalent to the multiple ways of seeing visual information. Perhaps you've heard of metric modulation. Thanks for the videos. I've been absorbing as much as I can.

thank you Doc.!

Figured you'd want an update on your information - the origin of life isn't nearly the mystery you made it out to be at 52:18 after all. Like we know DNA is far too complex to have developed on its own, not just because of the DNA issue, but also because of the additional supporting structures that are required for DNA to exist, such as mitochondria and proteins, as well as being able to interact with enzymes. RNA, however, can synthesize proteins in a way DNA can't, can interact with enzymes easily (a bit too easily one might say), and uses a much simpler sugar molecule. It's vastly, vastly more likely to occur naturally, and basically does a ton of different jobs - most of them rather poorly compared to more specialized components like DNA, but the important part is that it's able to do those tasks in the first place, even if at minimal levels. This is why a lot of viruses and single celled organisms don't have DNA at all, only RNA. Now, since the way RNA works to transfer genetic information within a cell means that DNA physically can't create proteins without RNA present, it means that you couldn't have just had DNA start out as the initial form of life. In fact, it's physically impossible for it to be part of the initial biogenesis process. It's not 100% guaranteed that RNA is what life would have started with, but it's excessively likely because of how it works and we already see RNA as being an integral part of how cells operate, so it'd be really weird if life started with something else then changed over to RNA, then to DNA. It makes vastly more sense for life to have started with RNA as its core genetic component. So yeah, creating RNA is actually pretty easy, and it basically brings all its supporting structures with it as part of itself. It doesn't do a very good job of most of those other things, but it's able to do almost everything by itself. Life would almost have guaranteed started with RNA, it wouldn't have been all that difficult to do, and DNA would've formed quite a bit later on afterward, taking on a more specialized role once the other parts of single-celled life had managed to be formed independently. Basically, you're looking at a gap of at least a few million years, with the current estimate being somewhere over 750 million, between the initial biogenesis event and the advent of DNA. What's more fun is that there were probably at least two biogenesis events on Earth, which shouldn't really be surprising once the conditions turned favourable for such. Felisa Wolfe-Simon's work on GFAJ-1 hints that there may have been an arsenic-based biogensis event, though it's been since proven that the arsenic doesn't get incorporated directly into the DNA in place of phosphorus. That doesn't completely rule out the possibility of the second genesis event, only that it's much less likely. Anyway, sorry, kinda getting off on tangents now. The point is just that no, DNA would not have been the origin of life, and we've since stopped even considering such as a reasonable possibility. Also, even Francis Crick, the one you mention directly, is well aware that some viruses are based off of RNA alone, and that they appear more primitive and seem to be closer to the original structures used before DNA would have been created. And I say created because DNA has to be synthesized by other established parts of a cell, it wouldn't have just spontaneously formed like RNA can. So yeah, the idea of DNA just appearing out of nowhere at the origin of life is kind of absurd, which we now realize. As far as I'm aware, there is no one even trying to perform experiments to see if they can generate life with DNA from component parts spontaneously, pretty much all that research is now being done with RNA instead as the basis of the initial biogenesis event. For more information, contact your nearest exobiologist who will have waaay more information than I do on this kind of stuff. =P

1:10:00 you are so right I can't explain it but you hit the nail on the head.

I have been listing as i work my job is fairly simple to me in that after a few days i no longer had to focus on what i was doing. So at first i listened to music then audio books and no lectures. So based on what you said about the invisible gorilla experiment and framing. My job is a necessary chore for my living but is intellectually boring and in my opinion deading so i turn my focus to outside stimuli to complete my goal of furthering my knowledge? In any case thank you for placing your lectures online

Thank you

The greatness of Jordan Peterson: This is a class; the students clapped at the end. When have you clapped for your teacher at the end of class?

Their is a positive relation between time utilization and detail representation

6:15 favourite moment from this lecture.