Jordan Peterson | Maximizing the Potential of Children

very impressive could could another way to address the potential class-based speciation be the education of the child and by the principles of let's say that over the last hundred billion people that have lived and died to build this beautiful world we live in today with all the food and water ubiquity and the governments and the economies that there every child that's being stamped out into this world might have a little tiny missing chip on their shoulder and that missing chip might be things like their parents explaining to them what evolution is or what their Anatomy what their heart and their brain is their body maybe what morality is things like that if maybe every child is born with a little bit of something like that do you think there's something like that Jordan gevis you know like that's done right this thing connecting everyone to everything and so the probability that people are going to be get whatever education they want in the next 30 years is overwhelmingly high so I think in some sense that problem is being solved as rapidly as it can possibly be being solved that is doesn't mean people should stop trying to find more and more effective ways of educating I think that would be realized there's some general basic principles that you think a parent should teach a child but obviously within the rules of life but it may be something about evolution or something about their own Anatomy and well I think that I I think that there are all sorts of things that parents who are good parents teach their children I mean part of what twelve rules for life is about is about that's like a universal ethic in some sense there I think that there is a there's dawning realization among members of the biologically oriented community let's say that there is something like an emergent ethic that's evident in biological systems I think one of the most outstanding examples of that I would say is apart from the work that DeWall has done with chimpanzees showing the beginnings of an ethic at least in the behavioral sense the beginnings of an ethic among chimpanzees is work that's been done with rats and so yog panksepp for example who wrote a book called effective neuroscience which I would highly recommend it's a real work of genius you mean my mind with Piaget by the way with the way that rats well--that's panksepp that was no Piaget found that out found that out in children so Oh panksepp was the scientist who discovered that rats laugh and you think well that's not a big deal it's like actually it is a really big deal because it shows that it shows commonality of the positive emotion systems across biological strata essentially so it's actually a really big deal and he found that if you tickle routes with an eraser they laugh ultrasonically yeah so you have to slow it down to hear them and the reason he would figure that out was because he was trying to figure out why if you take rat pops away from their mother and feed them and give them enough water they still die so they die unless you massage them with well he used a pencil eraser that's what because it's kind of soft it seems to work without harming the rats little rat pops and if you rub them with pencil eraser then they'll thrive and that was actually translated very rapidly into practical research because it turns out that if you have a premature infant it's in our incubator they often lose weight a which is a really bad thing because they're supposed to be gaining weight but if you massage them 3 times a day for 10 minutes then they'll gain weight about as fast as they do in utero and they leave the hospital on average 5 days earlier and the beneficial cognitive and physiological effects are still detectable six months down the road to walloping it's a walloping effect and so it turns out that one of the things panksepp sorted out was that human that touches a human need it's not a secondary need it's a primary need like like food and water the childhood development yeah yeah well and he was also a big proponent of rough-and-tumble play because he found out that in rats that rough-and-tumble play especially among juvenile males catalyzes pre-frontal development and that rat pups who are male that aren't allowed to engage in rough-and-tumble play show prefrontal hypo development and you can then treat them with Ritalin which is the ADHD drug just in case you're wondering so that's a very dismal line of scientific research but also very promising so what panksepp also found and this is another piece of information that really blew me away when I first first read about it was so he he banks have discovered the play circuitry in mammals and that's also a big deal right that's like discovering a continent to discover a dedicated circuitry to a set of complex biological functions that's a big deal man and so when he was exceeding play behavior among rats he noticed that juvenile males in particular would work to wrestle and they wrestled really a lot like all human children or like cuman children and dogs wrestle and rat spin each other so what Pink's have found first was that and other scientists as well but I'll use him as a shorthand was that rats would work to enter a play arena where they knew they were going to be allowed to wrestle with a appear and that's kind of how you figure out if a rat wants to do something right you make him button press for it or pull on something and then you can measure how fast you press the button or how hard a poll and you can get some estimate of how motivated he is and that's pretty damn motivated to enter into a play arena and so if one rat enters into a play arena and another rat does and the one rat is ten percent bigger than the other then in like nine out of ten cases the big rat can pin the little rat and in the first bout then pinning establishes dominance this is kind of an interesting commentary on scientific methodology too because let's say that you are investigating rat behavior and you were trying to draw conclusions and you only paired rats together once you'd assume the big rat dominates its physical size that does the domination and that's the purpose of play but that isn't right because finally what it went of relates as well play is something that iterates right you don't play with a person only once you play with them well who knows for how long right if it's a relationship that lasts decades then it's decades of reciprocal interaction so panksepp and his colleagues and the other scientists who are working on this paired the rats repeatedly so these are iterated games and the rules of an integrated game aren't the same as the rules of a off-key and that might actually be the basis for a universal ethic is that there are rules for iterated games and what banks have found was that ok so the big rat is now super ordinate to the little rat now when you repair them the little rat has to ask the big trout to play that's the rule so the big rat gets to sit there like he's cool and the little rat has to hop up like like a dog that's asking you to play and sort of bounce around you all know what that looks like dog kind of puts his rear end up in the air kind of hops a little bit and that means like well come on human not me you know and if you have any sense you know how to do that and and you can even understand when the dog does it and the dog if he socialized can understand when you're doing it right because a well socialized dog is you kind of you kind of go like this and then he does the same thing and you whack him on the side of the head a little bit he growls and puts his you know your hand in his mouth but he doesn't bite it but he sounds like he's going to the dog knows what the hell's going on unless it's completely unless it's raised by a behavioral psychologist which is the worst behaved dog I ever saw was a dog that was raised by a behavioral psychologist okay and so anyway sorry about that but so anyway so you pair these rats together and what you find is that so the little rat has to ask the big rat to play in the big rattle like you know break is cool and then wrestle and then if you pair them repeatedly unless the big rat lets the little rat win 30% of the time the little rat will no longer ask him to play like and I read that it was like little electrical storm went off in my bag is what happened to me - well it's so good so I'm so absolutely unbelievable is that well there you have it emergent ethic of reciprocity all you need to do is pair animals together in reciprocal play boats and you have an emergent reciprocity and then you think well okay so that's the basis for social interaction is that reciprocity there's a bit of an advantage to thee to the big rat but not a huge advantage say well that's the beginning of an ethic and you say well human beings that ethic emerged at the biological level and then human beings watched it develop and told stories about it that's where the stories came from and then out of the stories we coded and explicit ethic and that's where the philosophy of ethics came from but it emerged from the bottom up something you predicted 150 years ago he said well you know we'll find that there was an emergent ethic that emerged biologically and then was later mapped and so that was just well that's just absolutely beyond belief didn't move very likely true and points the way to something like while an archetypal ethics certainly one of reciprocity which I think the fundamental archetypal ethic it's like

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Length: 9min 20sec (560 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 21 2018