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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
What Are the Most Real Categories?
There is a level of categorization that we seem to manifest more or less automatically or implicitly. In the mythological world, the categories are more derived from darwinian processes on cognitive and perceptual function. And then there's categories of the imagination that you have to infer up from the sensory domain. We do that partly in science by comparing our sensory representations across people but we also do it by thinking abstractly conceptualizing abstractly....
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