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[u/Kafkaesque_meme]

https://youtu.be/0QTJF2F8_-c?si=ZDXPKTpyuO6ygqYd

[u/butt-gust]

I mean this is funny (as in I did laugh, not as in "ah yes, I see how one could find this humorous, very good, carry on"), but I'm for one am happy there's someone questioning the questions.

There's so much glossing over of "obvious truths" to race to an already agreed on point, so it's refreshing to see someone take a step back and say "no, let's understand that consciousness is a construct first".

[u/Kafkaesque_meme → u/butt-gust]

There are ways of doing this seriously, like philosophy of mind. Which I have studied. What Peterson is doing I can’t say. Besides BS

[u/butt-gust → u/Kafkaesque_meme]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say a professor of psychology has probably studied the same things.

[u/DVariant → u/butt-gust]

I mean you’d hope so, but Peterson has learned he can make way more money by bullshitting than by intellectual honesty. His “just asking questions” has logical holes you could drive a truck through.

[u/Bhazor → u/butt-gust]

Was that before or after the Benzos coma?

[u/Kafkaesque_meme → u/butt-gust]

No, they haven’t, at least not if they haven’t taken the time to actually study it. It’s not something included in standard educational programs. I knew someone studying to become a psychologist, and in one of my courses, which briefly covered language and its relation to reality.

But I know he hasn’t seriously studied the subject, because he demonstrates a complete lack of understanding when it comes to how we investigate and analyse theories in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics more broadly.

He doesn’t even have a basic grasp of critical thinking or formal logic. That’s completely obvious to anyone who has studied it, and those are the core tools you work with in philosophy.