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Structuring Your Perceptions (part one)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How Do You Know What You Should Be Doing?

You could even try this, close your eyes for a second and see if you can remember what color the chairs you're sitting on are. That's the thing that's cool, because who cares if there they happen to be red? But it doesn't matter if they're red, because if they were black, you could still sit on them. As long as the thing that you're perceiving fulfils the function that you're undertaking whell you're looking at it, then your perceptual representation is good enough. In it we're all ignorant people. We don't know everything. Our knowledge about everything is bounded. And so fundamentally we flounder in a sea of ignorance. So

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