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250. The Adventures of Pinocchio and Free Speech Part 3/4
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is Critical Thinking Dependent on Speech?
Once you can think, you can represent the world abstractly. You can divorce the abstraction from the world and then you can produce avatars of yourself. We do that in our stories, we do that when we imagine in images and depict a dramatic scenario playing itself out. But then we also do that in words because we encode those images into words and those words become partial dramatic avatars. And then the words can battle with one another. So thought seems to work. Let's say verbal thought. You ask yourself a question. You receive an answer in some mysterious manner. There's an internal revelation of sorts. That's the spontaneous thought. Then there's the critical aspect, which is
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