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Maps of Meaning 4, 5, & 6

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Reason Why We Should Think?

i want you to consider the following hypothesis, ok, so we're going to make the presuppositions that i don't think are unreasonable. First is that we are essentially animals, that we've evolved in a darwinian fashion. And second, that the consequence of that evolution, much of which was precognitive, right? That we were around as es before we were capable of thinking. In words, say, much of that evolutionary history has conditioned the manner in which we think. Or we think more like biological entities than we think like rational machines.

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