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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Difference Between Intelligence and Consciousness

The pre frontal cortex is particularly huge in human beings. It's this primary and secondary areas that allow you to act voluntarily, then play around with your actions. And so basically what i'm doing there is using my pre frontal cortex to generate an abstract representation of the world and then to plot out motor strategies before implementing them. There's something about that that actually defines the difference between intelligence and conscientiousness....

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