Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age

Re:Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age by JonnieCache on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @04:52PM (#10941662)

If this is interesting to you, then check out this frankly astonishing series of lectures from Jordan Peterson at the university of toronto. It's a psychology 40something course, and it covers the bible, ancient egypt, mesopotamia, jung, freud, piaget, skinner, dostoevsky, nietzsche, hitler, lots of evolutionary biology, lots of neurology, etc. etc. All tied up with the question of how to act in ones life. It's a truly amazing synthesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQOlQRp3gQ&list=PL22J3VaeAB...

That's the playlist for last year's course. The 2016 course has just started, with a better camera this time. The first lecture is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjnvtRgpg6g

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Re:Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age by kobayashi on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @10:55PM (#10943258)

You had me at "from Jordan Peterson". The man is utterly brilliant and virtually anything he writes or says is worthwhile.

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Re:Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age by mrow84 on Monday January 25, 2016 @04:17PM (#10970004)

Thanks for linking to this. I am on the second lecture and it is pretty stunning so far. I really appreciate it.

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Re:Scientists have traced folk stories back to the Bronze Age by xinyhn on Friday January 22, 2016 @03:07PM (#10955241)

I have never heard of this before. It has since become one of the most interesting things I have ever watched. Thank you for exposing me to it.

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