Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

They put it in the unconscious.

You're motivated by things that aren't under your voluntary control.

They have an autonomy.

They call to you.

They plague you.

You can't control it.

What the hell is that?

So you need to have a problem, and maybe it's a problem because you're fascinated by something, you're locked onto it by a force that's beyond your control, or you're plagued by it, your conscience screams that you have to do something about the cancer of children, for example.

Because someone needs to, because the suffering is wrong.

That's a moral claim, by the way, not a scientific claim.

From the purely scientific perspective, the cancer cell has just as much right to live as you do.

You start your investigation with an a priori set of moral claims, all sorts of moral claims.

The claim that

The truth is at hand if you approach the problem properly.

The claim that the truth is comprehensible, you have to believe that to be a scientist.

The claim that your pursuit of the comprehensible truth will make the world a better place, that's an axiom of faith.

Are we so sure that our technology has made the world a better place?

Well, maybe we are now, but if we wiped ourselves out with hydrogen bombs, we might rethink that hypothesis.

So it's not self-evident.

You have to have a problem.