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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Imagination Is the Misuse of Rationality to Replace Reality
Rudimentary theory suggests that imagination might begin on the fringes of rationality. The tighter associations are, the more they look rational in an elgarithmic sense. And the looser the associations, the more imaginative. But as you move out into the looser associations, your probability of making a false positive increases. So so you can imagine that rationality shades into imagination. Then you made this distinction that fantasy is the misuse of imagination to replace reality, which is a nice distinction. One of the weird things about the way sciences scientifi sciences are educated. Scientists are educated specially to write scientific papers and to think about sciences. We think a lot about the method. Although it is a
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