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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Difference Between Intuition and Imagination?

I use about eight different categories of things as possible a constituents of intuition, things like instinct ar ready to go, knee jerk reaction, huristics and prejudices. And i am making the distinction, which is a very, very important one, between fantasy and imagination. I mean, this, this originates with wordswerh and coleridge, and, no doubt, probably with shelling. So in any case, all i'm really saying is that i rehabilitate intuition and imagination somewhat, but show their limitations. And i em, i hope, wave a flag for better science and better reason there's nothing at all wrong with science and reason in themselves. Problem nowadays is that science is

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