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God and the Hierarchy of Authority

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Perception, Perception Is the Act of Perceiving the Bottle

The act of perception is adjusting my bodily posture, including my hand grip, to be of the optimal size to pick that up. And it's not that i see the bottle and then think about how to move my hand. It's that i use my motor, motor cortex to perceive the bottle. So all those things are tied together in a very, very complex way with this a priori structure and also with the embodied structure. The idea of god the father is something like the birth of the idea that there has to be an internal structure that of which consciousness itself arises, that gives form to things.

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