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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Knower and the Unknown

You're actively engaged, right at the beginning. So that's another example of the knower and the unknown. It differentiates the world. It makes you a more differentiated harvester. And then so it's just continually cycling. That consciousness, the logos, the knower is that thing that's doing that harvesting. And you cannever say it's not there. For all intents and purposes they're always there. They're permanent. O k, so anyways, back to the brain, sense. Sensory unit. Most animals organized around smell. Not us, somewhat still. But human beings are organized around vision. We have a massive, massive amounts of our cortex dev...

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