2017 Personality 12: Heidegger, Binswanger, Boss (Phenomenology)

In this lecture, 12th in the 2017 series, I discuss the Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy of Being, interpreted through the eyes of the psychotherapists Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss. The phenomenologists were attempting to to reduce the painful separation between object and subject that has as one of its consequence the elimination of meaning from existence.

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[daniellucas]

I'm watching this again for the first time in a couple years. I've decided I'll have to come back to these lectures periodically, probably for the rest of my life. There's so much I can understand in this lecture now that I completely missed the first time.

Edit: Five minutes after I wrote this comment, Peterson says, "Every time you look at it, you're different." lol, exactly.

[tmman]

"The art is beyond what is articulable, otherwise it's just propaganda"
Mind blown once again! Thank you Dr. Peterson!

[ichiniize]

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[VincentVSD]

even if you've remove the applause from the videos I keep aplauding in front of my screen

[pedroaguirre]

8:32 that sound effect! this man is the complete combo.

[nordion]

"[Artists] are going out into the unknown and representing it imaginably. So what does that painting mean? Well, if the artists knew that he'd just write it down. The art is beyond what is articulable; otherwise it's just propaganda."

Based Prof giving much respect for the artists who take chances peering over the edge.

[Ibroadcastmyself]

"I think their ideas are extremely interesting, and so, im gonna talk about them"

[siddhantparikh]

"Clean up your room. That's a good place to start...stop." - This felt like a bitter and effective medicine, since I'm watching it online with a slightly disordered room. Nicely played, Dr. Peterson.

[uxmongc]

33:13 jp about curiosity "it's the thing that you could be in the future calling you forward" goosebumps!

[kjellkuipers]

When I was depressed I had the same sort of dream over and over again. It was very confrontational and I hated it. Now I understand why I had that dream. Peterson's explanation of his dream really took me to town man. I will try to analyse it and learn from it. This man is a gift.

[StyleKrong]

17:24
DM: "You enter a dark room."
PC: "Can I see anything?"
DM: "What's your passive perception?"
PC: "There is no passive perception. JP says I gotta roll for it."
DM: "Alright, roll."
*20*
PC: "What do I see?"
DM: "You become aware that this world is nothing more than an intense mentally projected fantasy shared between several conscious beings within a common interval in time, and that within the projected fantasy alone, an infinite number of possibilities exist, multiplied by the infinite frames of reference present from each conscious being witnessing the session. Your character's intelligence score is too low to refocus on a single frame of reference, suffers a horrific internal mental trauma, and their head explodes. Roll a new character."

[jaybird]

Jordan Peterson explaining his ayahusca trip to Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Podcast would be the absolute ultimate!!!!

[tdaytoday]

From the phenomenological perspective you pursue those things that shine forth

To study human beings as objects you need to take into account You still have to take into account they ensconce themselves within a value system and also People live within an ethic
and the ethic structures and their perceptions

people live within a self-defined perceptual world.

To make a representation of a thing accurate It would have to be as detailed as the thing itself.

[3:30]You're surrounded by an infinite number of potential things to apprehend But that isn't the world you live in The world you live in is a very very constrained subset of those
things
And part of the question is then
1. What's the nature of that constrained subset? That's what you inhabit, that's what makes up your experience?
2. How is it related to the infinitely complex objects that are around you?

You're in this perceptual frame and
It Contains all of the things you experience subjectively The emotions and the qualia[quality of the experience of something] it's the quality of pain which doesn't seem reducible to
a set of objective facts Or the quality of color, or the quality of beauty, or the quality of love, or the quality of sorrow.These things sort of manifest themself as raw facts of
existence and also are constituent elements of your field of experience.

[5:26]Dasein[to be there] or Phenomenological Frame

Its conceptualized as being in a place and with you at the center of Your realm of experience.

Implicit Assumptions Of Phemenologist
All the experience of the past events are implicit in the present event i.e past has shaped it [eg:- All of the times you've fought with your mother are implicit in this fight]
[To investigate the fight/event completely You'd have to get to the bottom of that entire train of interactions you've had with your mother/person/about that kinds of experiences]
and also the future is folded up in what you're experiencing right now and it unfolds as you interact with it.
It's conditional to some degree on you and your past is because it's your past and you that are determining the actions that you undertake right now that determine how
the future is going to unfold around you[Now completely obviously because you don't have complete control over how things unfold].

###[7:26] You don't see any material objects/events, you see the objects as portals through which you are going through different worlds/realities[you are going to have a different
futures or different realities are going to happen because of the object/event being there/happening or not being there] and the object/events also contains the past because the
attainment or not attainment of an object/event is going to determine how you in the present are going to remember/structure your past
[A new past popes into being due to an event happening or not].


Intelligence - Your body is more likely to respond to what the thing actually is, than how it is that you see it.

####The object that you're interacting with only reveals what it is as a consequence of the way that you interact with it.
For Example:- If you take a complex object like another person, a huge part of that is going to depend on exactly how I interact with you{the person}
you could be a raging beast if I interacted with you one way and you could be a perfect, you know, cooperative entity that was very pleasant if I interacted with you another way.

####If you're interacting with something that's really Truly multi-faceted{A Person.Computer}.The problem while trying to determine what it is. But the problem is that what it is
manifests itself only in accordance with how you behave towards it.
For Example:- Subatomic particles. Hypothetically, the most objective thing there is Well it turns out that whether they're a wave or a particle depends on the way you set up the
experiment.

###To define and object scientifically you actually don't define the object. What you say is here is a multi-dimensional entity if you approach it in this manner, the procedure,
The methods. If you approach it in that manner, it will manifest that set of traits i.e you adopt a frame of reference with regards to it and not others.

the object itself is not something that is easily reducible to a single set of properties.

For An Object/To a situation/ While reading a book or while seeing an painting every time you look at them you're different Every time you look at them you're different because You're
bringing something entirely different to the situation and the is complicated enough to allow it to reflect something new to you depending on the
stance you take in relationship to it.

### [13:21]How you narrow down the objective world/reality into your subjectivity [narrow down your world from lets an infinite set of possibilities]

1.By the way you interact with the objective world.
2.As your senses aren't acute enough to detect everything and it stops you from being absolutely overwhelmed.
3. In the space that you inhabit You have implicit in the perception a sense of where you are and what you are doing right now as well is what you're aiming at

[15:56] How Your Perception reveal the world-
You have an aim in mind and the aim is what you're pointing your eyes at, The aim is what's structuring your perceptions, The aim is what's revealing that part of the
world that is being revealed to you to see.

###The Aim also structures your emotions. It also primes your behaviors. It's not a drive, it's not a goal it's not a motivation, it's more than that. It's all of that at once.
Your entire act of perception is determined by your entire value structure.

[19:34]Perception-
### What we perceive are "first and foremost" not impressions of taste, tone, smell or touch Not even in things or objects, but meanings.

You are a multi-level object and you are interacting with the world at different levels and part of you is reflex and what you are doing is thinking and feeling about objects and bunch of other fast and slow things all at once.

Your conscious mind is very slow to respond to fast objects/impulse or stimuli at an instant and thus first reacts and only then only perceives the information.

You see in the world are meanings So you see the meaning detection first and the object recognition second.

There is no object perception but only pattern perception.
So the meaning is what's being perceived first and foremost and you have to perceive meanings first because you actually want to stay alive. So the world is full of
these objects that have meanings to you that are relevant to your survival and what you're perceiving first is the relevance of the pattern to your survival.

[23:45] The response to the object is implicit to the perception.[response to the object is part of the perception of the object It's what gives the object meaning].

There's no perceiving entity without a structure But by the same token the thing that's being perceived Also shines forth with its own potential manifestation.

[28:00]There's no perceiving entity without a structure But by the same token the thing that's being perceived Also shines forth with its own potential manifestation.

[31:19] When you're curious about something, why are you curious about that? Is it calling to you? Or is it something that you're interpreting?It's both.

Curiosity is like the manifestation of yourself to the ego. It's the thing that you could be in the future calling you forward.

[34:49]You explore something new, What do you generate from the exploration? You. Because as you explore it you learn things. That changes you. So you generate psyche out of the exploration.
That's spirit. And you also generate the world out of it But the thing to begin with is psyche and world at the same time.

The potential that there is inside objects[eg:-Cell phone, birth control pill] When You make a object, you think you know what it is, you have no idea what it is And it's going to do
some of the things you think it will do And it's going to do a bunch of things you have no idea about And that's because Things are more complex than they look They're multi-dimensional
and they have an intrinsic complexity That tends to unfold across time And it's only somewhat predictable and so you have things under your
control and in your grasp to some limited degree But at any point chaos can collapse/switch into order Or order can collapse into chaos/switch.

[42:19]What do you have in front of you?
A world of objects No, You have a world of potential in front of you And you can interact with any aspect of that potential And while you're doing so, you realize it You pull something
into being that wouldn't have been there before And what you see in front of you is a wall of potential, The potential is not infinite because you're constrained But, it's still For
all intents and purposes it will do you just fine it's more potential than you could ever need.

[44:07]Dreams-
Dreams are at the forefront of thinking They get there before you The creative imagination is at the forefront of thinking If you think that you're moving out into the unknown To
gather new information What gets there first is the imagination.The dream and the imagination can bring you places that you don't even know that you can go.

###Part of the Dasein
[45:38]The sense of responsibility that you have to address those problems It's part and parcel of the way that human beings manifest themselves in the world.So part of your pathology would
be failure to bear the responsibility for your being And a sense that you have a debt to your existence.

[billOground]

can someone please make a compilation video of that girl coming in late every bloody time?

[anotherlover]

This video blew my mind several times over. I'm going to have to make a study of these lectures.

[nicolashuffman]

Coming from a background in science and engineering, the world of abstract thought always seemed like one of hand waving and supposition, hypothesizing without ever testing; a kingdom of the inept. I'm glad to find myself proven wrong on this. These ideas have merit, even if they are difficult to grasp from my perspective. And many of them are testable!

[Fawnshell]

I’ve watched these lectures over and over and over again, the last 20 or so minutes is amazing

[TesterBoy]

Peterson’s lectures are always densely packed with ideas. He is a talking novel. I can imagine his lecture preparation is an hours-long mental workout.

[LeBakalite]

Man, this one lecture was prticularly brilliant all the way through to the end.

[kathleenh]

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