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Who Dares Say He Believes in God

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What Is Our Consciousness For?

Human conscious s is that faculty that confronts potential itself. We build circuits within us for habitual action that seem to run in a very deterministic fashion. What our consciousness seems to be for is to encounter those things that we have not yet encountered. And so you could say that what our consciousness is for is for the encounter with potential. You know, that our ness is for the it's not even for the present. It's to transform the future into the presentand reallya that's what our consciousness does.

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