Jordan Peterson - Desire: Biology & Culture - Mind Matters 3

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Jordan Peterson shares his thoughts on the nature of desire and the question of nature versus nurture for desire. Please subscribe by clicking the button above for more mind-opening videos.

Abstract:

Human beings are not mere cognitive or representational machines, matching the reality of ongoing perceptions against the cold, calculated expectations of our actions. Instead, we interact with the world as if it matters, as it does, since we are alive, and wish to stay that way. Thus, the matter of the world is something that is meaningful, and that meaning is real, rather than something added, subjectively, to an essentially meaningless but in some manner more real and more fundamental substrate. Our perceptions themselves, our visions of reality, are deeply and necessarily informed by desire.

We build the world of desire from the bottom up; our embodied structures shape our basic motivations, which we develop and render more sophisticated through our capacity for social interaction and cognitive abstraction. At the most primordial levels, we share motivational structure and function with other animals, far down the evolutionary chain of being. At the upper levels, we arrange and organize our individual motivations into complex social games; above that, we play games with the rules of the games themselves, allowing the shared social structures that organize our motivations so that we remain predictable to ourselves and each other to change and adapt to new circumstances.

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