Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief — Season 1, Episode 8: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

Episode synopsis

In this lecture, I discuss the relationship between the basic categories of imagistic/symbolic representation and brain function, noting that the very hemispheres of the brain are adapted, right/left to the environmental or experiential permanence of chaos/order or unexplored/explored territory, with consciousness serving the Logos role of communicative explorer (a function related in one of its deepest manifestations to the function of the hypothalamically grounded dopaminergic systems).

About Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

This lecture series lays bare the grammar of mythology, and describes the relevance of that grammar for interpretation of narrative and religion, comprehension of ideological identification and understanding of individual choice.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Context and Background
• E2Marionettes and Individuals (Part 1)
• E3Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)
• E4Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3)
• E5Story and Metastory (Part 1)
• E6Story and Metastory (Part 2)
• E7Images of Story and Metastory
• E9Patterns of Symbolic Representation
• E10Genesis and the Buddha
• E11The Flood and the Tower
• E12Final: The Divinity of the Individual