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229. God, Consciousness, and the Theories of Everything | Curt Jaimungal

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Problem of Perception Is Power

Some evolutionary bio ogists say power is the predominant, perhaps only factor that underlies our social interactions and even truth claims. But there's a huge difference between claiming that it's useful to investigate the role that arbitrary expression of power plays in conceptual systems,. and the premature answer that the solution to the problem of perception is will to power and nothing else. I talked to robert trivers this week. He's getting old, and it was interesting to talk to him but we talked about psychopaths, ok. So imagine that the patriarchal structure is predicated on nothing but power, ok. And then imagine psychopaths are particularly cunning uses of power, users of power,Ok. Then

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