I don’t know about you, but I’m becoming heartily sick of being told the obvious nonsense that “myths” are just as valid an approach to the truth as science, just different. No they aren’t. If there were a better way of getting to the truth, science would adopt it.
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Ok, I haven't read that, but this quote is terrible, and I see it everyday from pedantry, clearly expressed in that angle of Peterson criticism. It's shallow.
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I think its very important. We absolutely do not need to disregard either the potential of art to move us or the importance of narratives to our species to separate them from truth. This is highly counterintuitive to us as a story-telling species but doing so is how we advanced.
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For most of our history, we have relied on narratives to guide us. Life got better when we developed a system to overrule our story-telling nature and discover what was true. We don't have to lose stories or stop finding them meaningful and we never will but lets not go backwards
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Might I suggest The Science of Discworld 2. A great story about the importance of great stories and how extelligence has influenced the story telling monkey.
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Sounds good. However, I do not need convincing of the power of narratives. I am actually much more interested in cultural narratives & uses of them than in the methods or findings of natural science. I just see the need to see the difference between the two.pic.twitter.com/DNzwXkIZCJ
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