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133. Maps of Meaning 5: Story and Metastory 1

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Circuit That You Use When You Curse Your Computer

"It's very difficult to specify the meaning level, and it's not very easy at all to figure out how we do it," he says. "The circuit that you use to curse with is the same circuit that monkeys use to detect eagles or pards or snakes." In people who have turet sindrum, because they preferentially swear, a particular type of linguistic circuit gets activated when something happens....

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