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138. Maps of Meaning 10: Genesis and the Buddha

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Dominance Hierarchy

Every social animal, and even many animals who aren't social, are embedded in a dominance hirarchy. You have a counter at the bottom of your brain that keeps track of where you are in terms of your status. It regulates the sensitivity of your emotions. And well, and then perhaps with your own, with your own voluntary will, participating whatever the hell that is,. something we don't understand at all, and and are prone to dismiss because of that. The meter morality emerges from the particular moralities that are imbedded in particular co operative sit we could say co operative and competitive situations. We can expand that out biologically, to some degree, to the idea of the dominance...

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