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Arthur Brooks

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

You know, maybe what we'll actually find out with, you know, the exhaustive mapping of the human genome and the advance of science that there's a God center in the brain that we have particular proclivities for, whatever it happens to be. But I don't think so. I think that what I saw was that that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be an honorable, admirable man like my father.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

You know, maybe what we'll actually find out with, you know, the exhaustive mapping of the human genome and the advance of science that there's a God center in the brain that we have particular proclivities for, whatever it happens to be. But I don't think so. I think that what I saw was that that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be an honorable, admirable man like my father.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

You know, maybe what we'll actually find out with, you know, the exhaustive mapping of the human genome and the advance of science that there's a God center in the brain that we have particular proclivities for, whatever it happens to be. But I don't think so. I think that what I saw was that that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be an honorable, admirable man like my father.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And my father stood in awe of the Lord. That's what I wanted to be. Look, I wake up, Jordan, I wake up many days an atheist. I wake up, I don't know. But then I decide to worship. And I decide to worship because that's what I believe I'm supposed to do. That's the ultimate rum line of my life.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And my father stood in awe of the Lord. That's what I wanted to be. Look, I wake up, Jordan, I wake up many days an atheist. I wake up, I don't know. But then I decide to worship. And I decide to worship because that's what I believe I'm supposed to do. That's the ultimate rum line of my life.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And my father stood in awe of the Lord. That's what I wanted to be. Look, I wake up, Jordan, I wake up many days an atheist. I wake up, I don't know. But then I decide to worship. And I decide to worship because that's what I believe I'm supposed to do. That's the ultimate rum line of my life.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And behavioral science notwithstanding, that ultimately is the truth that I have to follow because that's the truth that I believe is most meritorious.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And behavioral science notwithstanding, that ultimately is the truth that I have to follow because that's the truth that I believe is most meritorious.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And behavioral science notwithstanding, that ultimately is the truth that I have to follow because that's the truth that I believe is most meritorious.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And that's conscious. This is Thomistic. This is purely Thomistic, right? I mean, this is the whole idea that it goes back and it goes back and it goes back until ultimately there is a creation of the first goal. It's the first mover, the first teleological mover, as it were.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And that's conscious. This is Thomistic. This is purely Thomistic, right? I mean, this is the whole idea that it goes back and it goes back and it goes back until ultimately there is a creation of the first goal. It's the first mover, the first teleological mover, as it were.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

And that's conscious. This is Thomistic. This is purely Thomistic, right? I mean, this is the whole idea that it goes back and it goes back and it goes back until ultimately there is a creation of the first goal. It's the first mover, the first teleological mover, as it were.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

I think that's right. And I think that we could make a very compelling argument, and people have in our field, that this is entirely evolved and completely materialistic. I think that's a totally legitimate argument.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

I think that's right. And I think that we could make a very compelling argument, and people have in our field, that this is entirely evolved and completely materialistic. I think that's a totally legitimate argument.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

I think that's right. And I think that we could make a very compelling argument, and people have in our field, that this is entirely evolved and completely materialistic. I think that's a totally legitimate argument.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

Yeah, no, this is the time travel, which is only allowed by the 30% of our brain by way called the prefrontal cortex. Yeah, right. Exactly. And many people believe, by the way, that Adam and Eve became our ancestors, fully became our ancestors with a knowledge of good and evil because of self-consciousness, which we became in the moment that the prefrontal cortex allowed that.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

Yeah, no, this is the time travel, which is only allowed by the 30% of our brain by way called the prefrontal cortex. Yeah, right. Exactly. And many people believe, by the way, that Adam and Eve became our ancestors, fully became our ancestors with a knowledge of good and evil because of self-consciousness, which we became in the moment that the prefrontal cortex allowed that.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

Yeah, no, this is the time travel, which is only allowed by the 30% of our brain by way called the prefrontal cortex. Yeah, right. Exactly. And many people believe, by the way, that Adam and Eve became our ancestors, fully became our ancestors with a knowledge of good and evil because of self-consciousness, which we became in the moment that the prefrontal cortex allowed that.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

Okay.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
528. The Longevity of Happiness | Dr. Arthur Brooks

Okay.