
Maps of Meaning 4, 5, & 6
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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What Is the Material Substrat of Everything?
Scientists believe that the material substrate of things isn't merely unformed stuff, right? It's patterned. It's full of information. And there are physicists working now who believe that conceptualization of the ground of being as information is a more fruitful metaphor than conceptualization of it as like unformed matter. I think if you show men a picture of a beautiful woman with her eyes averted while you're doing a brain scannd mapping of their nucleus ecumbents, nothing happens. Men are innately attuned to female beauty. Female beauty has a standard form, its replicable cross culturally and constitutes the averaged human, human female form. The gaze locking is an indication of shared attention
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