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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Importance of Attention

If you think about imagination and intuition, that imagine that in some sense, you lay out, or you ask for a revelation of a vision of the world. And we certainly do believe that we can dream and then achieve. We do lieve that we can't even achieve without dreaming. So obviously there's some relationship between our ability to intuit and imagine and the manifestation of the reality that we experience itself. It is an active, open receptivity which is going to meet whatever it is that comes out of that world to which we attend. I sometimes say attention is a moral act because it changes,. What actually is there in the world for us to find. And it also changes us

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