How Primal Fears Shape Our Minds

I don’t agree with everything you said in this video but man I can always appreciate a well argued point. Especially for something as complex as this

Amazing vid. Not what I was expecting at all. Keep it up man your script writing is levelling up

I was thinking about the reason behind Jungian archetypes recently (due to some wonderful videos made by a channel named Betwixt_app) and I'm shocked that the idea of them being just plain beneficial to functioning societies didn't occur to me. It feels obvious in retrospect, which is often a sign of a correct theory. There's another idea I've been playing with recently that also fits nicely with this: one major reason why intelligence is such a beneficial trait is that it enables efficient communication, and therefore efficient cooperation. Language is a huge deal, but it requires a lot of interpretation, which intelligence enables. Obviously it's not the only reason, but it intuitively feels to me as if it's a huge part why we have been such an evolutionary outlier - our tools for cooperation between individuals are just incomparable to other animals. Lovely video. Thank you for sharing it.

Great video once again. There is clearly so much research and effort going into every video and it is worth it!

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Good video!

I don't possess much knowledge to properly understand what you're saying in the video, but it's always a treat to dive deep (pun intended) into topics as abstract as consciousness 👍

this video is awesome homie like i'm going to have to put it on again after just reflecting on what you're talking about here if im understanding right, our unconscious mind is like the deep ocean? also at 1:45 - 2:04 when talking about navigating the world through vision; when i became blind i lacked so much information about the world around me that I became scared of everything. once i wasn't in pain and was able to start feeling my surroundings with my other senses, the world wasn't as scary anymore. the lack of information is what i think drives humans to strive to learn. so when i couldn't do much because i was learning to be blind, i spent a lot of time exploring the depths of who i am and i found my archetypes were really the only things that hadn't changed after losing my vision. becoming an abled blind person was even my own heroes journey and i relied on the stories from my culture to guide me through what i needed to do. there's a scene in avatar the last airbender where uncle iroh is just chilling in a jail cell for a long ass time and he just trained. i took that example and when i was so blind i really couldn't do much without hurting myself i would train. learned braille in 2 months because i was just channeling the archetype of iroh. at 5:44 when you say "culture shapes consciousness" it makes me think of the "pop" culture i have consumed (ATLA) and how it affected my behavior while experiencing blindness. i'm sure that there would have been some mexican culture folklore story that could have replaced this (but if im being a real mexican then i'd think of goku lol) so it makes me wonder what research has been done on the baldwin effect in relation to archetype behaviors. idk, like i said i gotta watch this again - keep up the great work!

Deep topic - pun super intended :) When thinking about collective unconscious fears, my thoughts along these lines jump straight to epigenetics, though I could be mistaken in my understandings. I don't want to get into details I barely grasp, but I think parts of DNA can change in response to environmental changes, like a change in climate might make certain genes get switched on or off, so that maybe an individual could become more efficient at retaining heat with colder weather, and those adapted genes are passed on to the next generation. This is a theoretical way I think that a collective unconscious might manifest in widely separated people, like fear of deep water, or certain animals. This too would likely affect DNA as it impacts social behaviours and therefore social norms, and I suspect it would largely do so subconsciously. I really relate a lot to your idea of finding your personal identity through a Heroic Quest of a sort. That 'rings' (pun intended) very true for me. I'm not being a jerk when I jokingly say "...and he came upon the Labyrinth of Darwin in search of arcane knowledge of the human mind, long lost to time. As one of the last humans remaining in the world untouched by the plague of Ewe, which had robbed so many humans of free-will..." I have to listen to some DragonForce now... :) You may like this: Does the Universe allow free will? (channel - History of the Universe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkB2D-_ZH0

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The deep sea has always been something that made me feel comfortable and enchanted. On coastal areas and our mood though, from what I remember coastal habitats are the preferred habitat for humans. We're pretty adapted for exploiting tidal pools(we can easily traverse them and we're dextrous enough to grab things from crevices) and also our tool usage makes better use of nets in shallower waters. Traversing into deeper waters though, where we can't see the bottom, would be dangerous. The push and pull of the tides can set one adrift, large predators dwell in deeper water and being that far from the shore means that it's easier to lose sight of it and get lost. I've noticed autistic people I've run into are similar to me in that they love the deep sea which I imagine might be because there are some oddities with autistics and the amygdala. I would also say that gene pools, cultures(meme pools) and our consciousnesses(menome, the memetic equivalent of the genome (^^^^: ) all interplay with one another and cause a lot of the tidal shifts in history across civilizations. For example, disadvantageous ideas like anti-natalism are going to negatively affect people who're more susceptible to social influences and if anti-natalist ideals become the mainstream dogma for a society then it will be those genetically more predisposed to being socially influenced by the mainstream who will suffer from it. Meanwhile, those less influenced by mainstream dogmas will be less affected and make up a larger portion of the gene pool(all else being equal) with each successive generation. You'd then expect the people who were more instinctual and thus pro-natal to influence and alter the culture away from anti-natalist ideals. Nature already has a kind of interplay that's cyclical like this that we openly observe in other animals with predator and prey populations as well. Also I definitely do watch a lot of anime, I figure you'd probably love Mob Psycho 100. I'd recommend it if you haven't watched it already and I recently came across bioelectric stuff, which is a bit off of what you usually cover but is interesting. There's a TED talk with Michael Levin about it that's super neat(and it also made me wonder about brain development and the bioelectric stuff he mentioned). Awesome video as always too!

wait, which Baldwin owns the effect? there's too many

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