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> I like Jordan Peterson's evolutionary take on these philosophical questions Why when actual evolutionary biologists disagree with Peterson on most of his "ta

• fsckboy 3y ago
  Peterson's a psychologist, an important field that many evolutionary biologists and HNers sadly don't quite understand, though they do very good work otherwise.
  • some_furry 3y ago
    > Just for the record since people can't see it, I had tons of upvotes before I added the part about Peterson. All the "logicians" here suddenly were not able to like (an emotion) the part of my comment that they had previously liked :) Please don't turn an unrelated topic into a flamewar about Jorpson
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  • mistermann 3y ago
    > You seem to be a person of faith, there's no arguing with people of faith. Can you describe the methodology you used to determine that this is necessarily true, with zero exceptions? > I just understand the limits of what we can actually know... Ah, a perfectly rational human....this is like the 50th or so I've encountered this week! Careful...faith is fundamental to human consciousness, and cultures, it comes in a wide variety of forms, and those who suffer from it typically are rendered unable to self-diagnose.
    • fsckboy 3y ago
      my apologies, you came in late, i'm on the other side (your side) of this debate, I was debating a rationalist, using the subterfuge of pointing out the religion that is materialism. some material that was getting downvoted was removed
      • mistermann 3y ago
        Ah ok....humans are interesting eh? So much potential, but so determined to fail. edit: wait a minute....wtf am I quoting from here? None of what I quoted now exists, yet there's no edit indicator on your comment....hmmmmm.