That was complete word salad which is Jordan Peterson's signature move
90% of what he says is just fluff. He uses a lot of flowery cryptic language to make it sound like he's saying something profound when he's really when not. He's one of those people who can talk for hours and say absolutely nothing
He also contradicts himself because in his debates with both Sam Harris and Matt Dillahunty he said the Bible is just stories and metaphors
90% of what he says is just fluff. He uses a lot of flowery cryptic language to make it sound like he's saying something profound when he's really when not. He's one of those people who can talk for hours and say absolutely nothing
He also contradicts himself because in his debates with both Sam Harris and Matt Dillahunty he said the Bible is just stories and metaphors
Here I will translate the word salad for you.
"Well being" cannot be objectively defined, neuroscience cannot do it because we are only conscious of a small portion of our thoughts, we cannot know ourselves fully and no fMRI can reveal our thoughts.
But beyond that, Harris' logical is flawed as many philosophers have pointed out.
Logically you cannot jump from “torture hurts people” and “you shouldn’t torture." There is a hidden premise we shouldn't do what hurts people.
The premise is moral in nature.
If morality is hard wired into out brains because of evolutionary biology then it would be present in each baby, how would that be revealed?
You only know stealing is wrong because society has deemed it wrong based on God's moral law which exists out side of our brains, we internalize that code of conduct because we are raised in it not because we have some hard wired brain that reveals it to us.
If we are pre-programmed for "well being" towards each other, Auschwitz would have never happened.