Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

That's a lot of fields to cover and refer to, you know, and so am I a master in all those areas? Well, I suppose in each of those areas, there are people who know more than me. But across the areas, I'm not doing too bad. And so I figured out some things that are very fundamental, I think. And we'll see how people respond. Like I figured out, for example, that

That's a lot of fields to cover and refer to, you know, and so am I a master in all those areas? Well, I suppose in each of those areas, there are people who know more than me. But across the areas, I'm not doing too bad. And so I figured out some things that are very fundamental, I think. And we'll see how people respond. Like I figured out, for example, that

I make a very strong case that it is now an unassailable fact that a description of the structure through which we see the world is a story. That's what a story is. A story is actually a description of a weighting function. You know how in large language models, the relationship between words is specified statistically? There's weightings.

I make a very strong case that it is now an unassailable fact that a description of the structure through which we see the world is a story. That's what a story is. A story is actually a description of a weighting function. You know how in large language models, the relationship between words is specified statistically? There's weightings.

I make a very strong case that it is now an unassailable fact that a description of the structure through which we see the world is a story. That's what a story is. A story is actually a description of a weighting function. You know how in large language models, the relationship between words is specified statistically? There's weightings.

that define the relationship between letters and words and concepts and sentences and paragraphs and A story is a description of the waiting function that someone applies to the facts.

that define the relationship between letters and words and concepts and sentences and paragraphs and A story is a description of the waiting function that someone applies to the facts.

that define the relationship between letters and words and concepts and sentences and paragraphs and A story is a description of the waiting function that someone applies to the facts.

So for example, when you go to a movie and you see the protagonist in action, you watch how he attends to things and you watch how he conducts himself and you infer from that the manner in which he waits the facts that are presented to him. And in consequence, you can internalize the story and then you can see the world that way.

So for example, when you go to a movie and you see the protagonist in action, you watch how he attends to things and you watch how he conducts himself and you infer from that the manner in which he waits the facts that are presented to him. And in consequence, you can internalize the story and then you can see the world that way.

So for example, when you go to a movie and you see the protagonist in action, you watch how he attends to things and you watch how he conducts himself and you infer from that the manner in which he waits the facts that are presented to him. And in consequence, you can internalize the story and then you can see the world that way.

And that's why that also accounts, by the way, for why we're so interested in narratives, right? So the problem with the empiricist perspective, technically, is that the empiricists essentially presume that all facts are to be weighted equally, right? And that's a value-free consideration of the facts at hand, but that's not viable biologically. It's not viable psychologically.

And that's why that also accounts, by the way, for why we're so interested in narratives, right? So the problem with the empiricist perspective, technically, is that the empiricists essentially presume that all facts are to be weighted equally, right? And that's a value-free consideration of the facts at hand, but that's not viable biologically. It's not viable psychologically.

And that's why that also accounts, by the way, for why we're so interested in narratives, right? So the problem with the empiricist perspective, technically, is that the empiricists essentially presume that all facts are to be weighted equally, right? And that's a value-free consideration of the facts at hand, but that's not viable biologically. It's not viable psychologically.

Some things have to be more important to you than other things because otherwise you drown in the complexity of all of those facts. So, I mean, just as a family man, you pay more attention to your child, for example, than someone else's child. Well, that's a waiting function. So, okay, so the first part of it is we see the world through a story, and I think that's incontrovertible.

Some things have to be more important to you than other things because otherwise you drown in the complexity of all of those facts. So, I mean, just as a family man, you pay more attention to your child, for example, than someone else's child. Well, that's a waiting function. So, okay, so the first part of it is we see the world through a story, and I think that's incontrovertible.

Some things have to be more important to you than other things because otherwise you drown in the complexity of all of those facts. So, I mean, just as a family man, you pay more attention to your child, for example, than someone else's child. Well, that's a waiting function. So, okay, so the first part of it is we see the world through a story, and I think that's incontrovertible.

I think, Ben, that's actually why we're in a culture war, most fundamentally, because there has been converging evidence from about six disciplines not least the literary theorists in France, the dread postmodernists, that have insisted that we see the world through a story. Now, where they went wrong is that The story that is being put forth as canonical is one of power.

I think, Ben, that's actually why we're in a culture war, most fundamentally, because there has been converging evidence from about six disciplines not least the literary theorists in France, the dread postmodernists, that have insisted that we see the world through a story. Now, where they went wrong is that The story that is being put forth as canonical is one of power.

I think, Ben, that's actually why we're in a culture war, most fundamentally, because there has been converging evidence from about six disciplines not least the literary theorists in France, the dread postmodernists, that have insisted that we see the world through a story. Now, where they went wrong is that The story that is being put forth as canonical is one of power.