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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 "takes"?

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.

> 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

> 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.

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

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.

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