My view is that he's like Elon Musk
Musk has done some wonderful things with the cars and rockets and so forth, unfortunately he's an utter dick.
Peterson has made some good points and has made more widely known some valid research which runs counter to what is basically an emotion driven agenda almost entirely disconnected from reality.
Unfortunately, he's also an utter dick, can't see when he's glaringly wrong, and when presented with a question he doesn't like the answer to, he'll waffle on about obscure psychological bollocks, or religion, until the time for that question is almost up and, then he'll end by questioning the person who asked the original question as to what they *exactly* mean by using a particular phrase at which point the host moves the discussion on.
Some of his recorded lectures are not bad where he's actually teaching students in some college somewhere, the rest of it is patchy at best.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 5 Aug 2022, 0:37,
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Can you actually quote one his good points in full?
It's all subjective, obviously.
I once heard him argue against the existence of objective reality. The guy is obviously educated beyond his means of understanding.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 5 Aug 2022, 13:02,
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Probably
but I'm not going to because I'm not getting drawn into a conversation about him. I've said what I think of him.
Regarding objective reality though, Einstein proved there isn't such a thing, with general relativity. Two observers can view the same event and disagree about the facts of it, and both be right.
I'll talk about physics if you like, I quite like that. Black holes are completely mental.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 5 Aug 2022, 23:22,
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Objective reality might not make much sense to us, but it's there.
An observer's subjective perception does not define (or, being charitable, fully define) objective reality. If you don't sense or measure the presence of the lion, it can still eat you, and if you don't know there's no ground beneath your feet, you will still fall down the hole.
There must be an objective reality even if everything we perceive is actually a hologram, a simulation, or the dream of a sleeping dragon or whatever.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 5 Aug 2022, 23:52,
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'Objective reality' in the absolute sense is really is dependent on where the observer is etc.
On an individual level, the exact experience of falling down the hole will differ. Yes, they will still fall down the hole, with different results according to which individual falls, size, health, athleticism and many other factors.
Yes, in a simplified way there is an accepted 'objective reality', it's just different for everybody.
In the lion case, it might depend on who is spotted by the lion.
Brian Blessed - the lion covers it's ears and runs.
David Attenborough - lion asks for autograph.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 6 Aug 2022, 3:06,
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plenty of physicists claim thersis no objective reality right up to the point you punch them in face
then shit gets real
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 6 Aug 2022, 7:51,
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I think you must have mixed up the definitions of subjective and objective in your head.
Objective reality is not different for everybody. What's unique to each observer is their own (subjective) perception.
Objective reality is not dependant on the observations of an ignorant life form that can't even observe or directly measure 99.999...% of their observable patch of universe. A black hole 28 billion light years away (which has no causal relationship with our observable bubble) is not even slightly affected by the musings of a flea.
Your subjective experience of reality has to be a subset of objective reality, that is to say, whatever you experience has a foundation in something greater, consisting of processes and states of being that we don't yet, or cannot understand.
Humans did not know about germs, bacteria, spores, etc, for a very long time. But our ignorance of these micro-organisms did nothing to protect us from them. The dinosaurs presumably knew nothing of asteroids, and their ignorance did not protect them. Our planet 'knows' nothing of gravity or mathematics, yet is bound by them.
Objective truths apply to you even if you are ignorant of them, even if your brain is incapable of acknowledging them, even if you have no brain.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 6 Aug 2022, 14:04,
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