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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Dragon of Chaos

Human beings can certainly be something and its opposite at the same time. And it's very paradoxical. It's a hard thing to reconcile with, witha, with a thought structure like modern science that always says something can't be itself and its opposite atthe same time. So lots of times were were, we're encountering entities and some sens that have an internally paradoxical structure. And we have to deal with that entire set of paradoxes or we don't survive. O k, so so and then, you know, there's this overarching symbol, which is the dragon of chaos, which is potential itself. And it's the potential from which all these categories emerge. The most...

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