Name: Story and Metastory (Part 2)
Released: 2017-02-20

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

S1 · E6 — Story and Metastory (Part 2)

S1:E6 · Story and Metastory (Part 2)

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12 episodes in this season

Context and Background

151 min

Marionettes and Individuals (Part 1)

143 min

Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)

146 min

Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3)

132 min

Story and Metastory (Part 1)

142 min

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Story and Metastory (Part 2)

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Images of Story and Metastory

131 min

Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

141 min

Patterns of Symbolic Representation

136 min

E10

Genesis and the Buddha

138 min

E11

The Flood and the Tower

152 min

E12

Final: The Divinity of the Individual

145 min

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

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Story and Metastory (Part 2)

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Feb 20, 2017

In this lecture, I discuss uncertainty, or anomaly. We frame the world -- or the world reveals itself to us -- as a story, with a starting point, a destination, and the behavioral means to move from one to the other. The destination is valued more highly than the starting point, and constitutes the point of the story -- the aim of the individual. Reality manifests itself within that story as what is relevant for forward movement, what gets in the way, and what is irrelevant and can be safely ignored. The largest category, by far, is the latter. Unfortunately, sometimes what has been happily classified as irrelevant rears up and gets in the way. That's a manifestation of chaos. Chaos can undermine the story, or break the frame. The degree of undermining or breakage is proportional to the time and space over which the story in question extends its operations.

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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

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20172h 27m

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Story and Metastory (Part 2)

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Feb 20, 2017

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