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The Main Themes: 12 Rules for Life

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Deterministic Model Doesn't Hold at Every Single Level of Analysis

Theory of determinism is that we are driven by physical processes unfolding in a deterministic manner. But it's an incomplete theory for two reasons, he says. You can't predict our behaviour and you certainly can't even predict the behaviour of animals. And so it's not self evident that we're 'determinist' - but i actually don't think we are.

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