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224. Questioning Sam Harris
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is There a Canonical Interpretation of a Text?
Post modernists criticized the notion that there was a canonical interpretation of a text, because there's so many subjective interpretations of any text. So when you say that you can project something on to the text that, in some sense, isn't there, that's also a an extremely deep problem. The fact of multiple interpretations of a single reality is so pervasive that it stopped a i researchers from being able to build functional robots. And we could say that as you go deeper to that nested structure, what you approach becomes more and more sacred. By definition, i'm trying to define it experientially. That means something shifts way down deep, and that's how you feel it, even in
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