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133. Maps of Meaning 5: Story and Metastory 1

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Brain and the Nervous System

There's a huge part of the brain devoted to sensory processing. The motor cortex helps you plan and plan at voluntary actions. It's the pre frontal cortex that's the home of complex, sophisticated voluntary thought. You couldn't think abstractly if you were prone to act out what you thought. And so one of the weird things that you discover psychometrically is that there's no correlation between conscientiousness and intelligence....

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