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149. Phenomenology: Heidegger, Binswanger, Boss

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What's the Symbol of Curiousness?

If your curiosity is random, you're schitzophrenic. You need to think of it both ways at the same time. The thing that's being perceived also shines forth with its own potential manifestation. It's a fascinating one, because curiosity pulls you forward. That's the thing that's so cool. You can't really control it, but it's not random. I think that's the way to resolve this puzzle. There isn't a perceiving entity without a structure. And your structure has been evolving itself for three and a half billion years. But by the same token, the thing that's being perceptions also shines forth with their own potential manifestation.

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