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April 2018 Q & A

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Complex Orienting Reflex and Meaning

The phenomena of meaning is a manifestation of the complex orienting reflex. Meaning isn't epiphenomenal and it isn't some kind of delusion that rationality can and should overcome to say, well, everything's meaningless. Kids in intact heterosexual families where the father is present do way better on multiple indices than kids who are part of single parent families.

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