I mean the Bible just seems like a story. And a story seems to be most simple way to transmit information to large groups of people. This story seems packed with moral and ethical guidance, depending on interpretation. Remain skeptical but to say there is no value seems wrong.
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Replying to @VirgilMSW @darrylrichard23
We don't have to say that something has no value to say that it is not rational & evidence-based. Peterson says this explicitly. He calls it the affective (feelings) truth of the mythic world (narratives).
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Helen - I’d highly recommend spending some time with Peterson’s book Maps of Meaning. In the Sam Harris podcasts, his health was suffering and he failed to effectively articulate his claims about truth.
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Replying to @maloneype @HPluckrose and
His thesis in Maps of Meaning is that there are two modes of construing the world. The first is that the world is a place of things. The second is that the world is a forum for action. The former is the domain of science. The latter is the domain of arts.
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Replying to @maloneype @HPluckrose and
The second mode of construal is the world of meaning (defined as significance for action) and is superordinate to the first mode (aka the objective world.) Stated differently, we orient and act before we categorize.
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Replying to @maloneype @HPluckrose and
To support his thesis, Peterson constrains himself to rational and objective argument and employs three levels of analysis: prosaic life, neuropsychology, and comparative religion/mythology.
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Peterson technically defines “affective valence” as “motivational significance” which further means “significance for motor function (i.e. action.)”
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Replying to @maloneype @HPluckrose and
In addition to discussing it in the context of mythology, he also connects it to our neuroanatomy (precursor to evolutionary psych) and neurochemistry (would love to have him and Sam get into this…)
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Replying to @maloneype @HPluckrose and
Here is a passage that uses the term "affective valence" in a way that could equally apply to dragons, a fire alarm, or N200 ERP (Event Related Potential) waveforms. (A fancy neuroscience term that I took the 20 minutes to understand.)
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Please stop. Feelings and subjective and shared cultural meaning are all very well in their place but should not be conflated with truth.
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