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314. Consciousness, Chaos and Order | Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Utility of Persistence in Relation to Depression

There is this interesting other possibility. I mean, it is a very delicate question of whether a pathology is adaptive or maladaptive or functional or dysfunctional. It has been argued that a depressive episode is functional in a situation of extreme social dilemma. And so if you're going to fix yourself, you've failed multiple times. The part of you that's error ridden has to die. So the payoff of neuroticism is well, why have negative emotion?"

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