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Biblical Series: Adam & Eve / Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Is an Abstraction

The story of adam and eve represents the fruit as producing a psychological transformation. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is an abstraction across trees. We use the same bloody circuits in our brain forage for information, that squirrels used to forage for food,. That animals used to foraging for food, it's the same circuit. And so once you well, that's why we're information foragers....

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