Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

All right.

Well, that's a bit of

Preamble musing, let's say, to set the stage.

I have one other thing I want to discuss with you before we get to the stories themselves.

I want to discuss with you what constitutes a story.

Now, you know, we're engaged in a culture war.

And part of the reason for that culture war is the clash of two claims about the structure of reality itself.

Now, the rationalists and the empiricists, they make the claim that the world is composed of a set of objective facts, and that you can be guided by those facts.

You can follow the science, for example, right off the tyrannical cliff, as you may have noticed.

The world is composed of a set of empirical facts, and that was opposed starting in the 1970s.

by the postmodernists who claim that, no, you see the world through a story.

And turns out,

The facts support the postmodernists and not the scientists.

And that isn't an opinion anymore because the same realization occurred simultaneously in multiple fields of inquiry.

So the greatest neuroscientists in the world now regard each word as a micro-narrative, let's say, or as a tool.

The AI engineers learned that they could only produce supercomputing intelligences by training them within the framework of something approximating a hierarchy of values.

The

computational scientists learned that it was impossible to generate a robotic machine that could function merely as a consequence of modeling the facts.

All of those things basically happened at the same time.

And here's why.