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Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Relationship Between Consciousness and Reality

The relationship between consciousness and reality is by no means straightforward. From the perspective of a beam of light from a photon, there is no time, and there's no distance from one point to another. You name it and it comes forward with staggering clarity. We perceive things at the level of perception but we don't see them as animals. And so anyways, god's interested enough in what adam has to say that he has him name all the animals, and that sort of makes them into animals. Now, there's more to the linguistic story than that. The word cat is very short, like the word 'dog' which turns out you could be a particular animal. Nd maybe that

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