Psychedelics, Consciousness, and AI | Richard Dawkins | EP 256
Dr. Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, theorist, and one of the world’s foremost atheists.
In this episode, Dr. Dawkins and I discuss religion, psychedelics, consciousness, symbolism, postmodernism, and the importance of objective truth.
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[0:00] Intro
[1:30] Jordan’s rise to fame, Bill C-16, and free speech
[5:30] Intimidation and fear of speaking out against the far left
[9:10] Micro retreats
[11:40] Dawkins’ paper about the organism as a model
[18:30] Female sexual selection
[21:10] Differences between Jordan's and Dr. Dawkins' thinking
[24:00] Jeffrey Gray's work on modeling, psychedelics, and anxiety
[30:00] Psychedelics, symbolism, and consciousness
[41:00] Jordan’s experiences with psilocybin and yoga
[45:40] Postmodernism, Lacan, Foucault, and Mikhaila’s Oxford Union debate
[52:30] Jordan addresses Dawkins' assertion that despite being against postmodernist thinking he at times utilizes symbolism to speculate in a way which is similar to them.
[53:50] Finding commonality between myths and symbols across cultures
[55:50] False pattern recognition and revelatory thoughts
[59:20] Objective truth and the scientific process
[1:07:10] Unpleasant or dangerous truths
[1:08:10] The metaphysical vision of the redeeming power of truth
[1:10:10] Jordan and Dawkins discuss the idea that a narrative drives the process of inquiry, even in regards to objective truth
[1:12:50] Humans’ ability to understand difficult concepts on a biological level
[1:16:10] Question: Do you identify the religious impulse with the totalitarian proclivity for dogmatic certainty and the potential acceleration of aggression and atrocity as a consequence?
[1:20:10] Question: To what degree do you think that consciousness operates as a fundamental mechanism of selection and shaping?
[1:23:00] Artificial intelligence and the metaphysical significance of consciousness
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I wondered how an interview with Christopher Hitchens would have turned out, he was my favorite atheist, he was poignant with the typical British sense of humor, quite a treat to watch
Consciousness co-creates reality, we aren't just residing "on" this "holographic net" (for want of a better term) we *are* this holographic net. We are this beautiful chaos, folded fractally and infinitestimally small into every part of us, from the spiral of a galaxy through the curl of a snails shell to the helix of our dna. *As above so below* Therefore Jordan, to curb free speech is to curb thought, which is to forcefully shape *reality* itself, and not for the better. I cannot fathom more important work, or a heavier mantle to carry than that which you have chosen sir. I can't thank you enough for the work you do🐉
@@alchemyseal9400 His arguments were all terrible.
'''great discussion''', its interesting how the Species 'consciously' , is dominated by sub conscious forces. With the vast majority totally unconscious of that fact. emf/emr is your Children's, Children's, 'most serious' and present threat. Obviously with other co-factors. Have a Talk with Professor Martin Pall ,Washington State,...
Put the caption on.
This felt like that friend who invites you over so you can watch him play videogames.
Hahahahahaha
LOL!!
The perfect analogy
Haha, yes. Perfect.
It would probably make more sense perhaps if we got a glance at their email exchange that prepared the path for this “conversation”. Regardless, wow. Half way through and can’t stop feeling like I am watching a single vehicle car crash.
I imagine Richard preparing dinner, feeding the cat, chosing clothes for tomorrow, all during the interview.
marvellous comment
Mr Rogers?
Like a bond villain
Upon reading your remark, I could not imagine Dawkins doing anything else as Peterson rambles incoherently. ;>)
Ahahaha exactly
I had a bit of free time, so I downloaded the above conversation and put it into my video editor. I removed everything that was not a sound coming from Mr. Dawkins' mouth. Here's what I came up with: Original video: 1:26:56 Intro removed: 1:25:30 Total audio from Peterson: 01:07:41 Total audio from Dawkins: 00:17:49 Dawkins audio sans interjections (yeah, uh-huh &c.): 00:15:44 Out of an hour and twenty-five minute video, that is supposed to be an interview of, or, at least, discussion with, Mr. Dawkins, Mr. Peterson talks for an hour and eight minutes. Sheesh!
I absolutely love that you decided to take the time to do this!
I salute your patience to sit through this and edit it so meticulously. Peterson seems to be in an echo chamber and he loves the sound of his own voice. It's ridiculous.
Jfc. 22:14 "God!" "Okay . . ."
😂😂😂 you legend!!
I guess JP would love to talk to him for hours, he just has so much to say and so much to ask at the same time.
Jordan Pererson took 45 minutes to say "i got high a few times and hallucinated a double helix and it reminded me of a snake sculpture i own"
lmao
😂
"I think you're almost drunk on symbols" ... That may very well be the first time that Dawkins has made me laugh out loud
Same, lol. "He's out of line, but he's right."
Type in "Richard Dawkins Bitches" to make it 2 times
I love that term, to be honest. Drunk on Symbols. I see it as both an insult and a compliment.
@@williansnobre Good point... and it certainly didn't seem to offend Peterson. He even partly agreed with it, realising that perhaps he was getting carried away with it as one can with a bottle of good wine...
Dawkins was short and didn’t want to participate. The least interactive I’ve ever seen a guest with Dr.Peterson.
You've got to love Dawkins' bluntness in regards to Dr Peterson's speculations.
He really is anti-Peterson (in a good way) lol
Yes Dawkins is like the guy at the bottom of the well dictating to those above, what is and isn’t actually going on outside of it. Nor is he is able to perceive that the door to knowledge is tightly sealed shut because of his unshakable manmade (constructed) world views (that box in his perception of reality). He reminds me of a child that won’t eat his broccoli, because he thinks he hates it (thus making it the only possible choice for himself)... and has built up an elaborate rhetorical argument to avoid being forced to eat it (what’s otherwise actually good for him). He made it clear: there either is a God (creator) or there isn’t... and he gambled his soul that there absolutely isn’t. How could he ever see what he has chosen to refute (ie. believe/have faith) 100%?
@@GMC-qo9xi that first sentence. Hitting the nail on the head.
And still, Dawkins is able to express approval of other things Peterson is saying. He obviously isn’t trying to please either JP or a specific audience, which is a mark of intellectual integrity
@@GMC-qo9xi All world views are manmade. Every religion was started by a man / woman
Diving into the depths of Richard Dawkins patience.
A deep dive indeed. Such a wasted opportunity, almost feels like JP was nervous after RD slammed his snake analogy and what followed was a babbling self obsessed monologue
@@paulfallon3065 it's not babbling, you're just not smart enough to understand
@@paulfallon3065 plus Richard Dawkins don't even make sounds to signify that he's listening and understanding which is why it sounds like JP is just blabbering
@@paulfallon3065 ?
@@huh7056 dude a discussion involves two people., n jordan was all over the place. If u don’t understand that I can’t help u any further., jordan is clearly a sharp guy but he had little to no ability to regulate himself and understand how he was coming off…he was definitely babbling
listening to this discussion for a 2nd time, it has gotten no better. I can well imagine Dr. Richard Dawkins quietly working on his latest book while Dr. Jordan Petterson worked his monologue! 😮
An ex boyfriend was listening to Peterson religiously on and on and his life was a very big mess. I didn’t like Peterson’s word salads and ongoing marathon of talking to himself about nothing and not giving the other person a chance to get their word out even once.
😂
This was kind of weird. Like the initial part of the conversation was cut out and it's audio only. I feel like maybe Dawkins spoke less and let him speak more for this result in the comments. Anyways jp doesn't do this much anymore in actual interviews. He called this a discussion and not a interview for whatever that's worth
jp Sure loves to hear himself talk. It annoys me so much that he runs down tangent upon tangent, and spends so much time setting up his question that Dawkins prompts him to get on with it and ask the question! I can imagine Richard drifting off into his own work while JP blabs on and on.
It's true, Dawkins does do a powerful line in populist propaganda, he sounds soooo sincere too! :) Whereas, Jordan is honestly searching for the truth of reality - the true purpose & meaning of life, so to speak, and that's the difference.
Professor Peterson, I say it with all love I have for your work and for you: You gotta give more space to people you talk with. In this conversation you talked so long that it was more a monologue than discussion at times. Best wishes!
Agreed
Well, he was asked to defend his helical snake/ DNA connection claim. That took a while to do properly. Of course Dawkins simply called it "boloney" and moved on 😌. But I agree, the last few minutes of JBP asking Dawkins questions was the best part of this conversation. I imagine JBP would agree as well.
Well, listening to Richard Dawkins listening to, and being constantly interrupted by JBPs tripping rambling was really not very interesting. Probably the most disappointing JBP performance so far.
@@matthewhall8161 he wanted to speak about that to dawkins because ,1 JP knows he would disagree and perhaps offer something he didnt know, but other than simple rebuttal that wasnt the case, 2 JP knows that RD is very very very smart, so he would like his take on it.
Exactly my words. I definitely believe you are far deeper than Dawkins but that won't emerge until you practice more one of your strongest ideas: you have to listen carefully if you want to understand. And in order to listen with the needed care you must talk far less than your interlocutor
When I heard the bang at 1:24:34 I momentarily thought Dawkins had shot himself in sheer frustration at not being able to get a word in edgeways 😅
AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAGA
😂😂😂😂😂😂 This is the funniest shit I've heard all year.
Omg. Dead. 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Most underrated comment on this video 😂😂😂
20:51 "it seems to me you keep wandering from one subject to the other" 😂 he's right there in fairness
Absolutely brilliant and hilarious.
Well, he established what Dawkins' theory of modelling is (probably for the listener), and then asked how Dawkins thinks that this pertains to sexual selection. Seems like that was the very clear build-up, right after the introduction, when Dawkins asked what he wanted to talk about.
Just how does Dawkins live with the existence of someone like Gandhi? Here was a man, a professional lawyer, who gave up everything for a cause that would bring him nothing but suffering and poverty, for what? Is it possible to say he did not believe in a God, then why was he doing it? Are we to assume that he was so stupid to not be doing it to be for a cause, like Dawkins, to have a nice lifestyle, of travelling around the world and feeling important hob-knobbing with the hoi polio? Relative to that; how does Dawkins’s deal with the existence of Steve Jobs, who was an ardent admirer of Gandhi and who, according to the once CEO of Apple, had a picture of the great man which was only possession he had in his house. Does Dawkins lump him ‘Steve Jobs’ in with all the other misguided fools who believe in some form of religion….. It’s bloody ridiculous to have to listen to such endless nonsense…
If only I could have just enough ADHD to be creative and curious, but not so much that I'm unproductive and dysfunctional.
@@davidbanner6230confirmation bias makes you see evidence for your beliefs everywhere. Crazy how you tried to make an argument that god exists based on the fact that Ghandi existed. Ghandi was even a Hindu, how is his life evidence that your god exists?
I listened to the whole thing. Jordan Peterson took all of us on a bad trip and Richard Dawkins was the casualty. Professor Dawkins was such a gentleman that he didn't hang up.
Dawkins is always the sober friend we can rely upon
Weren't they beside each other? They were walking together after a while. Then running as Peterson tried to catch Dawkins.
@@High_Priest_Jonkoyes, but I'd like hear him ramble for an hour for just one time, after he is drunk, lol. That'd be EPIC
He's trying to remind the atheist that he is as religious as any fundamentalist.
Dawkins is a pseudo intellectual, though who cowardly refused to show up.
I have deep respect for both of these men. But I gotta say the highlight of this conversation for me was Professor Dawkins' willingness to challenge Dr. Peterson bluntly and straightforwardly.
Agreed. "That's bullshit". 54:28. 😅
When such intellects come together, you almost ‘feel’ their intelligence as a force, which makes their bluntness SO FUNNY.🤣
well it would be the highlight, because he hardly talks for the rest of the video.
@@brando3342 it seemed to me like Jordan often didn’t give Richard enough time to explain his answer.
@@senseofmindshow Yes, quite.
Jordan Petersen discusses ideas with himself as Dr. Dawkins observes.
Yeah i hated how dawkins wouldn't even engage and just sat there silent when Jordan was waiting for a response
@@2511jeremy In all fairness there wasn't much room given for him to react. Dawkins as far as I've seen isn't the type of person to speak over or interrupt someone. As with most English orators/debaters out of civility you wait your turn. Which is what he was doing for much of Jordans hour long Shakespearian soliloquy. Much respect to them both ofcourse but this was Very chaotic/structureless discussion lol
@@2511jeremy He was waiting politely for his turn. Peterson just talked too much.
This would have been great as an episode of Dawkins interviewing Peterson.
@@2511jeremy Yeah.. I think your hate might be misplaced. I think Dawkins may just have been exhausted waiting for a chance to comment on anything, mixed with wondering where to begin dismantling the nonsense mountain that Jordan was gleefully building the whole time.
I didn't know Dawkins was Peterson's Psychiatrist.
LOL
Rotflmao
100% lol
He isn't. Dawkins is a lazy minded individual who ignores the why and only focuses on the what. Having little to say or less indepth psychological input is the opposite of what qualifies a physiatrist to be. If your gonna try to be funny at least be accurate.
Ha ha, very good 👍
Dr. Dawkins' patience is admirable.
I'm sure that his three wives agree with you....
@@David-cf2iq Which three wifes?
@@David-cf2iq your mother is there?
This is the single most painful, "interview," I've heard Dr. Peterson have. I was really hoping to hear more from Dr. Dawkins here.
it's painful, but it's also secretly really good. it will just take a while....peterson is trying his thing to oppose materialism, and it's not easy. yeah, he should've listened more.
@@bogowongo dude he just ranted what was the purpose in having anyone else on … just get on and rant .
@@cynthiamartini8982 yeah, i wondered the same when listening to it without reading any introduction. this was not meant to be an interview. but i think peterson sat in a delicate spot of both trying to build an intellectual bridge, while being fully aware that a lot of what he's trying to get across is very challenging to a core materialist mindset. i don't know enough about the seemingly chaotic plethora of things he tried to get at, but the ayahuasca story is one thing i know about. if dawkins had to study the story of ayahuasca forced at gunpoint, e.g. via the works of jeremy narby, he would have to contend that there's a serious mystery there. why would a figment of your imagination in your head during a hallucinogenic trip tell you about which specific 2 plants of the rainforest to mix in order to achieve a wildly different and prolonged effect. this "interview" really ain't what it seems. but i still think that in a more lucid state, peterson would've let dawkins talk more.
@@cynthiamartini8982 yeah. the echo chamber groupthink mentality, people defending "castes" like atheism or materialism or idealism or spirituality.....it makes it very very hard to build bridges across to different mentalities. i'm not a fan of dawkins, but i think he's genius enough to help humanity with progressing, if he just receives some important data from the other bubbles of thinking on this planet. he coined the "meme" meme for one in the 70s, which is a pretty great one. it's become central to my thinking.
@@bogowongo I really don’t think he would think there’s anything mysterious there at all.
Professor Dawkins, thank you for hosting this podcast with your special guest, Dr. Peterson, and for letting your guest talk.
It makes sense that RD would have more questions. His work is pretty much intuition for an educated person at this point where as JPs work is subversive bordering on revolutionary. I'm sure as open and curious as JP is he knows RDs work well, where as RD, being very closed minded and unable to understand any kind of subjective truth, had more to learn.
@@merlin4real Subversive . . . ? Peterson makes a grift of shoring up hierarchy.
@LizaFan subversive in the sense that it runs upstream from the lay person's intuition. Also, pointing out that hierarchys exist if you like it or not is a far cry from "shoring them up".
@@merlin4real Dawkins is a great scientist, and biologist, Peterson is a psychologist and prone to Benzo abuse.
@Simon Paterson I never said RD wasn't good at his job, he is amazing at it. I remember reading the selfish gene and thinking it was great. Also straw manning Petterson doesn't make his work less brilliant.
When the podcast was finally over, Dawkin's breathed a sigh of relief thinking maybe there is a God
The last 15 seconds, you could hear Dawkins wonder, I think there might be a god.
haha very nice
Lmao
😂
😂😂😂 Jordan unwittingly achieved what no other thinker managed
I love how Richard confronts Jordan’s intellectual elusiveness, and Jordan’s response is “We just have different thinking styles”.
"JP- I'm more about aesthetic than facts!, RD- "that's nonsense" "Oh my god jeeze, let me change the subject already"
I’d hire Dawkins to be my accountant, but Peterson to be my CEO. Both brilliant, but different thinking styles ;)
@@5th-SeasonI feel like Peterson as a CEO would do fine at the beginning due to his superficial charisma, but sooner or later he would get caught up in his own bullshit and would leave the company bancrupt.
What does bancrupt mean?
@@ukaszrybkowski2769 exactly like elon musk
Never thought I would have ever had an existential urge to hear Richard Dawkins speaking.
Dawkins does sound like the Blue Raja in the movie "Mystery Men". Almost a caricature of an accent.
@@ivanoranrof9577 His voice here reminded me of Bertrand Russell from the famous debate with Copleston.
Same, lol.
Yes, an oasis of reason in a desert of fata morganas of conjecture, symbolism, factual errors and nonsense ill disguised by verbosity.
I am so angry with Jordan right now
This wasn’t a discussion. It was Dawkins listening to Peterson talk.
I'm so disappointed in the man on this one... FOCUS! FOCUS!
Dawkins was steering him in the conversation though. Seemed to me anyway.
Because if Dawkins even said a word, Peterson would have dissected it instantly. The equivalent of "hey man it was just a joke" when they weren't joking, Dawkins is too afraid to engage anything that profound because he himself knows the chances of his atheistic philosophy being the universal "correct" is not likely, and hes a narcissist that doesn't want to be wrong.
Masked by "I don't follow where you're going"
JBP seems to have a problem with excess
that's the difference between the great Dawkins and the rest of the thinkers and authors , right to the point, choice of word, not using fancy words to impress, just precise articulation.
Well said 👍
That is the tradition of analytical philosophy. The focus on clarity and formal logic in language was initiated by English intellectuals like Bertrand Russell, then it became the dominant style in the academic world in England. There are many writers like Dawkins in many fields. Some Americans like Chomsky stick to it as well. That contrasts with the style of continental philosophy, which can get poetic, obscure and dispersive.
@@onurbole7921 When you say philosophy in regard to Dawkins, You are simply highlighting communication style right?
Dawkins is 80+ years old. It's amazing how some people are capable of staying sharp at that age, I mean, he probably never drinks or smoke, but 80+ is where most people's mental capacity is already weak. Can't imagine living past 80 honestly. This dude is a beast, I hope he stays well for a long time. The first of his book I've bought was the God Delusion, and I quite enjoyed it, although I'm not quite an atheist myself. I always find the artistry of making science (and what is usually assumed the boring stuff for most people) topics interesting through creative use of literature. Science writers like he and Sagan, journalist like Hitchens, they are underrated for their prose. It doesn't take much for fiction to appeal, but how incredible is the ability of making non-fiction/reality a thing of beauty. Absolutely amazing.
Dawkins actually went to do his weekly shop while peterson was making his point
🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@@MMopzone what a fun guy 🤣 jesus your miserable
I laughed HARD! ahahahaha
I am watching a Dawkins lecture after this just to balance out Peterson's monologue. 🤣
You must be new to Peterson
Lol
Lol true
@@painandpyro 😁 I have listened to all his debates and interviews for almost 4 years now, but damn, he is next level in this one... I don't think it is wholly his fault, though. Richard seems disinterested, kinda bored. 💁♀️
@@talitaza8862 I think he was a bit irritated, and it was more evident for me when he used the word "bullshit"
If I learned anything from this "conversations" it's that Mr.dawkins is an incredible listener
Yes, as Mr.Dawkins intended to be referred to as such.
Two highly intelligent and interesting people that I've admired for years. I had high hopes for this discussion....shame it was so one sided though. It reminds me of the short poem that used to be on my science room wall at school.... 'A wise old owl sat on an oak, The more he heard, the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, And that's what made a wise old bird'.
This was not meant to be an interview. As you can tell, he does not explain the complex stuff to the listener, as he usually does, because this was meant for himself- not others. Poor guy, doing something nice and gets all this negativity for his trouble.
@cynthiamartini8982 can I ask exactly what you mean by your response to this comment? I'm not sure I understand.
This is why you don’t call your friends while you’re on psychedelics, they’ll most likely have no clue wtf you’re talking about 🤣
This conversation reminds me of a friend who calls me once in a year and tells me everything that is going on in his life with nonstop rambling and fails to even ask once how am I doing. So when he is talking I keep the phone on and meanwhile do all my household chores only saying "hmmm hmmm" to make him believe I am listening. After he is done rambling and gets tired, I say "Well done" and hang up the phone and take a nap.
Lol
😂 +1
You have friends?
@@projectalpha4782 If you take off the veil of anonymity from your username, then you too can attempt to be my friend.
@@milindphadnis3990 'attempt'
20:50 hahaha! I love Dr Dawkins. He's such a no nonsense factual guy. Discovering him about 15 years ago really changed my view on this world.
And 42:00. This scum Peterson got exposed. I've always knew he was a fraud who gets drunk on his own word vomit.
Me too brother:) 🫂 for the better imo, for the worse in the opinion of everyone else, even though I've been even more helpful and kind to others... Does not matter. I'm still a heathen with no morals in their eyes :(
He's a disinformation shill.
@@Acrocanthosaurus Dawkins is? He's open to being wrong. I've learned a lot from seeing him eat crow and thanking the person for it. What are you referring to?
@@Subfightr what in the world are you on about
1:23:55 Dawkins is so fast at 81. JP often asks questions that are overly wordy for no apparent purpose and might take a moment to parse. But not for RD. BTW, I listen to JP a lot and I've never seen him this intimidated in any conversation he's had. Good for him.
It looks like Jordan Peterson invited Richard Dawkins (only) to listen to his entire lecture. What an unforgettable experience!
This is exactly what an interview shouldn’t be
One where the host talks 90% on the interview?
@@ericdufrane2344 it was a joke
Just how does Dawkins live with the existence of someone like Gandhi? Here was a man, a professional lawyer, who gave up everything for a cause that would bring him nothing but suffering and poverty, for what? Is it possible to say he did not believe in a God, then why was he doing it? Are we to assume that he was so stupid to not be doing it to be for a cause, like Dawkins, to have a nice lifestyle, of travelling around the world and feeling important hob-knobbing with the hoi polio? Relative to that; how does Dawkins’s deal with the existence of Steve Jobs, who was an ardent admirer of Gandhi and who, according to the once CEO of Apple, had a picture of the great man which was only possession he had in his house. Does Dawkins lump him ‘Steve Jobs’ in with all the other misguided fools who believe in some form of religion….. It’s bloody ridiculous to have to listen to such endless nonsense…
Two intelligent people with different ideas discussing them in an open conversation I'd say that's exactly what it should be
The Dawkins interview w Russell Brand was much better. Two Brits using words collegially. Refreshing.
I'd love a round two but this time with Dawkins having the floor. With more time of course, in fact, I'd pay to see that. Overall, as with most people, this was such a great meeting!
reminds me of "The Last Samurai" drunk on wine or Word? Who Wins? Heraclitus, Iamblichus, and Augustine are winds washing over Dawkin's Sand Dunes
his TED Talk, an Atheistic Novella, Or Novella, A MASTERPIECE .
novelella
... or novelella, I meant
Agreed. I'm 30 minutes in and JP has been talking pretty much the whole time.
That is why Dr. Dawkins prefered an audio session, So that he can do his daily chores, in the mean time. :D
Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.
Psychedelic’s definitely have potential to deal with mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression, I would like to try them again again but it’s just so hard to source out of there.
Yes, bergwilly11_
A lot of people have testified about this and I really want to give it a shot. I put so much on my plate and it definitely affects my stress and anxiety levels
The Trips I've been having have really helped me a lot,I finally feel in control of my emotions and my future and things that used to be mundane to me now seem incredible and full of nuance on top of that I'm way less driven by my ego and I have alot more empathy as well
@@Elizabeth-gu8hxIs he on instagram?
If people are wondering the interview starts at @1:19:35 This is when Jordan finally shuts up and actually asks a question without trying to answer it himself and beginning another 30 minute rambling monologue.
Peterson is groping at blindspots, and trying to grasp smoke; Dawkins is simply witnessing and observing it for 45 mins really...
5:41 Richard Dawkins: I admire your courage in speaking up about this. Huge number of people, including me, totally agree with you and many many of them are just too frightened to say so. Because there is a massive intimidation going on, especially in the academic world.
Bang on. I've seen it to many times to remain silent about it anymore.
lol
Good transcription!
You only need two words…..prove it. Until it’s proven all you need to say is F U.
How about at 42.25 ! Dawkins, “ so you think that our consciences can see down to the cellular level? That has got to be utter nonsense.”
It’s almost like Dawkins is a therapist listening to JP vent out his feelings
I can summarize this entire conversation in one phrase: 'Drunk on symbols'
You know, this reminds me a lot of the first conversation Peterson had with Harris about truth around 5 years ago: clunky and tough to listen to. But I found the subsequent conversations between Harris and Peterson to be extremely interesting and insightful. I really hope the same will be true for Jordan and Dawkins. Major respect for both thinkers.
Even in this one, I was interested to hear Jordan talk about which of the purveyors of highly inaccessible ideas he finds to be saying anything of value. I’ve dipped my toes into he writings of Jung and some post modernists. I’ve read a small amount of Foucault and struggled greatly. I never read anything by Lacan, but I’ve read several works where his ideas were referenced. I’d be interested in hearing Jordan talk to a defender of Lacan and a critic of Jung.
@Ambient Music: To make you feel better Df? Hurt hjm brother plz
@ckots Yeah I never really understood Sams level of TDS given that he is highly analytical and evidence based regarding the positive impact within a system. It baffles me that he can look at what causes strife in people (financial struggles, upward mobility, etc) and acknowledge the fact that people are more free to explore other avenues once the baseline struggles of survival are taken care of and then turn around as say Trumps presidency was overwhelmingly negative simply because he personally despises how Trump speaks about the issues.
@@seanmatthewking I wachted some lectures on Lacan, I read some and also some application of his ideas. Most is bad and he still mostly a fraud, although some ideas are great. For example, his notion of extimacy, mirror stage, symbolic order, which can be applied in something as the technological domain.
This conversation was very clunky , to say the least.
LOL! That moment around 41:35 when Peterson said, "I have taken extremely high doses of psilocybin", is where a very confused Dawkins was finally able understand why Peterson was taking the conversation in so many directions.
He was telling a joke & it took 40 minutes to get to the punch line
I'm officially never going to waste me very limited time on earth listening to JP ever, EVER again
THIS
Same brother, same
You people are so ignorant and unintelligent. You are ignorant to possibilities.
And he makes thinks so unnecessarily long to make himself sound grandiose
Word
I respect Richard Dawkins. Jordan B Peterson looks full of himself. Loves listening to his own voice.
Jordan Peterson does not look full of himself. He's just an intellectual who has such a flow of ideas that it's hard to stop going. I'm sure you wouldn't understand...
Both of these statements are simultaneously true
I love Jordan Peterson. That’s why I’m subscribed to his channel and was able to listen to this but I wish Jordan would have let Richard Dawkins get a word in. Richard was not able to finish his thought before Jordan jumped back in.
I think he was partly just tired, but this has been a problem with many guests. Peterson gets on his Energizer Bunny mode and just keeps talking making no effort to cut to the chase.
Dawkins knows how to use his big boy voice. You have to listen to a lot of Peterson's ideas before you can understand where hed coming from and Dawkins obviously recognizes this; he's a smart man and he's trying to listen. This isn't a debate, there isn't a "winner" or a "loser"
@@ThePallidor Cut to the chase. Just the opposite. Peterson does not ever cut to the chase. Rather than say what he thinks. He has to first tell you all the references he has used to get to his conclusion. As if he needs to defend the conclusion before stating it.
If you love Dr. Peterson then you should respect him enough to listen to him or to finish his show. 46:46 Dr. Peterson states: "Now, I've talked too much during this discussion so far; there's something I really want to ask you about if you don't mind." Dawkins subsequently refuses to field Peterson's question and insists upon answering Jordan's previous line of inquiry. Your characterization of Jordan repeatedly "jumping in" and thereby preventing conversation is entirely false and disrespectful.
@@ribos2762 WOW, that’s crazy to say that and use those words about Jordan Peterson. I think the reason you say that is not because it’s accurate but because of favoritism towards Richard Dawkins and whoever else. Without a doubt Jordan has helped so many people in the world. To call him a coward and a pseudo, is exactly that, not genuine.
I want to thank Dawkins for having Dr Peterson!
This feels like those times we'd do heaps of acid and record ourselves... talking utter nonsense, and later looking back and laughing our asses off at how profound we thought we'd been.
Did we all have this experience??
I love how JP lectures Richard as if he’s a student rather than one of the greatest thinkers of modern times
I expect JP has a different view of RD, as do I.
Did you seriously just call RD one of the greatest modern thinkers? Unironically ?
@@colecassell2477 I also nearly fell off my chair at the comment, but it's what some people believe and presumably by the man himself. .
But he ISN'T one of the greatest thinkers of modern times... He's just a popular writer of militant atheism... which any 20-year-old filled angst can do!
@@davida.rosales6025 He's not just a popular writer and of militant atheism. He has had an impact in his own field too. He's just not very good at having a nuanced discussion about religion, he's completely focused on reciting facts and pointing out how you can't prove the mystical aspects of religion, I'm with him when it comes to facts. However what He and atheists whom are inspired by him lack, is any willingness to engage with the idea what religion means to people in anything but a very negative way. They just don't want to understand the other side at all they don't want to even attempt it. And he clearly at least when writing God Delusion didn't understand Christianity in general and it shows. He should have stuck to his own lane, His work on religion and atheism isn't very impressive or thought provoking. Even though people like Harris and Hitchens had equally hostile way of approaching the subject matter they at least had some basic understanding of what they were talking about when it came to Religion, Dawkins is completely lost on the subject matter.
I've gained a whole new respect for Richard Dawkins merely for his patience throughout this interview XD - Great gems in here, thank you Mr Peterson for putting this together.
Dawkins in my experience is a master of putting everyone else down.
Yes, it almost seemed that Dawkins was perfectly happy to let Peterson put forth his ideas to be scrutinized. Kind of like the Floyd Mayweather style of debating..
@Bk6HXwD9DYK57jWm maybe, or there may have beem much there to digest and make sense of. The questions he did ask were great ones that kept the conversation in context as well as driving it forward. A great conversation to be allowed to be a fly on the wall of.
probably has something to do with him having a stroke
@Bk6HXwD9DYK57jWm Or Maybe Peterson overcomplicated the simplest things. He takes a simple idea that everyone knows and is aware, wastes 5 minutes rambling about making it out to be something it's not, then just keeps having diarrhea of the mouth ad nauseam. If you've spent any time in healthcare, or public service, when you listen to Peterson talk, it is EXACTLY like people suffering from severe mental illness. He's borderline delusional at times, he can't stop talking. The dude is hypomanic, distracted, paranoid, delusional, and he comes off to other people as condescending and narcissistic while also extremely boring. The dude needs to reel himself in. Or better yet, just stop. I've been listening to JBP for years. He's never been the same since his addiction, mental breakdown, and hosptialization. It seems in the past he was just stable enough to keep his craziness under wraps, but now that he doesn't have his kid chaperoning him and his filter of competence is gone, we can see how lame he really is.
A wonderful monologue Jordan.. I thought you were having a guest on?
Dear lord Jordan. I listened to this all. It was so frustrating. Each and every time Richard made and effort to reply to your questions, you interupted him and went off on a lengthy self gratifying rant. In the last few minutes, you allowed Richard to speak for just a few brief seconds bit you still, interupted and answered all your own questions. Painful to listen to.. I guess at the very least you intrigued me to go and listen to Richard, which I'd need to, you didn't let him speak. I suspect in the hour and a half interview? Richard spoke less the 5 minutes.. I hope you don't mind me saying..
Damn JP, this is rough. He's gotten better but what a bummer to see how this turned out. It would've been great if he asked multi-layered questions, gave plenty of time for answers and either briefly pushed back in a way that invites further conversation or used that to move deeper into a topic.
Even as a massive fan of Jordan, I felt embarrassed for him after listening to this. The only decent questioning came literally when they were walking down the stairs after the podcast
The patience Richard showed was quite remarkable. Was looking forward to a thought-provoking exchange of ideas instead we were mostly subject to shower thought from Jordan. He’s hoping round two will go better.
Jordan regularly paused to give Richard an opportunity to speak, but he just stayed silent.
I liked that Peterson could clear up his thought process about some of his ideas and make it tangible. Dawkins was on point to call some wild things totally unfounded "bullshit" in his words. But Dawkins made clear to wich point he agrees with Peterson and made good short points too.
Undoubtedly, round two has to be better unless Peterson keeps running his mouth, this opening recording was absolutely awful. Peterson is such a narcissist.
@@domenicogrimaldi591 nah, JP was constantly derailing Richard, and not allowing him to lead the conversation
50 mins and they are truly 50:50
Dawkins, 20:51: "It seems to me you keep wandering between one subject to another without sticking to one at a time." Dawkins, 1:19:38: "So what is it you wanted to ask me, because we have run out of time." This monologue could possibly have been an interesting dialogue, had Peterson let Dawkins in edgewise.
Bravo! The two highlights!
It was an absolute pleasure to see Peterson struggle so much to admit the gaps in his arguments “If you can’t convince them, confuse them with long convoluted stories to tire them out”
Truly, when he is pressed on something in particular he just immediately starts a monologue about “underlying components”.
41:04 after 40 minutes of rambling monologue this is the funniest thing I’ve heard all day 😂😂😂
Whenever I'm losing an argument from now on I'm just going to say in the driest delivery possible, "I have taken extremely high doses of psilocybin".
As a huge fan of both these men I was looking forward to hearing a discussion between the two. Very disappointed to find the format was more of a lecture from one brilliant mind to another. Mr. Dawkins displays much patience. It plays out better as an audio segment. Otherwise we`d be watching Dawkins listening. I absolutely love JP. Maybe someday Dawkins will feel comfortable with a live segment with more back and forth.
Yep. I enjoy JP's views on things, but I feel he needs a moderator when talking to someone else who could add similar value to a discussion. Pausing at 22:28 to say this. I've never really thought 'little' of JP, but I feel like he's kinda just being rude at this point.
@@3lit3gn0m3 agreed. But the moderator would have to be perfect in their direction
Why Dawkins wanted audio only is so that he can continue weeding his garden patch while JP talks on endlessly.
Jordan's answer for the snakes issue took up a lot of time all by itself. I have a good feeling we will hear another conversation with these two. Might not even be a bad live discussion similar to the Sam Harris events.
Well said, it was quite a strange one! Richard barely said anything for 45 mins! Love and respect to both these guys.
Dawkins: "you are drunk on symbols, please stay on track" Peterson: "Hold my beer"
*hold my two headed serpent
Lobster thoughts intensify*
The perfect comment !!
@@vafixer8885 ok that was funny lmao
Logic is still God though no matter what any human thinks or says. It is self evident and objectively supreme. All the people including Dawkins (unfortunately) who make it into a thing where either Dawkins is right or Moses was are missing that 90% of their message was the same. Eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Use logic and reason with intellectual honesty (good faith). If Moshe were able to debate Dawkins in person he would basically say “wtf dude I was saying the same kind of thing you are. I only did it 3300 years before you and was certainly not influenced by you.” Ok maybe that’s more like what I would say if I were Moshe but still. Moshe (which is at least a pen name for the Torah’s author if it wasn’t a “legal name”) said basically to devote yourself to the source of knowledge and embody reason. He said this without any influence from Dawkins, and mainly from practicing reason himself over the course of a lifetime, and from observing what a lack of reason and devotion to the objective one (logic) brought Egypt and various people. It is unwise to make an enemy out of my 90% friend because we see 10% of things differently.
11:55 "I'd like to talk to you..." Literally...
jordan, thanks for being there. also i thank every atom and anything which exists for being there. the depth of knowledge i got from this vedio is simply brilliant.
Unbelievable how Jordan invites Richard Dawkins and then just talks at him for the first hour without barely asking a question.
@@scparker6893 because its a funny observation. But you're right.
Marc please don’t be surprised by Petersons behavior. Dawkins has a history of striking below the belt in interviews. I’m not saying that P is right! Of course he is on the attack. I’m simply saying all is fair in love and war. Dawkins militant history invites confrontation! Peterson is just playing to his audience. Honestly I don’t believe that Peterson believes his own rhetoric. However his followers also have a voice and that belief shouldn’t be just dismissed as myth. These are real people with real hopes, desires, and culture. If mankind is ever going to unite, shouldn’t we at least respect our neighbors and approach them with open arms?
John I liked your comment. Your not even wrong. Your not quite right either but I respect your view.
@@scparker6893 because im stupid thats why
Richard Dawkins is a very patient man.
Scientic Fact.
He just took a nap and had a cuppa while JP bloviated
Or a coward.
Not when it comes to religion. He snapps easily there.
Not really
43:05 It is likely just the fact that you had seen models of DNA illustrated in books and online and that your consciousness presented you with the memory of what that visually represented model looked like, rather than your consciousness actually capturing a live image of your very own DNA as it was right that moment in your cells. Your weren’t “seeing” DNA “live”, but you were remembering models of DNA put forth by scientists and putting that memory in the context of your then current experience and probably “understanding” something rather than actually “observing” it. I think a lot of those mystic experiences have to do with memory and navigating and connecting different memories, rather than actual, outwards observation of the stimulating world.
I'm 37 min in . . .and have NO IDEA what the topic or point of this is. . . lol. . . . . I imagine Dawkins left for a while, ironed a shirt, made coffee, folded his laundry, and came back at "What was your question?" . . . .
This is the type of conversation that really needs a moderator.
If he sucks at Maths the man is struggling like the rest of us and the reason for his appeal.🤣 Dawkins is absolute, listen. The earth goes around the sun✅ The chimps are cousins✅ Intelligence came much much later✅ Shit man 🤣
Absolutely not. If you want debates with quick rehearsed talking points and pandering to respective fanbases, you're in the wrong place. Whenever JBP discusses stuff like this, he is always exploring, he's stated this many times
We don't need a moderator, we just need Jordan Peterson to learn basic two-way conversation skills
We need Bret Weinstein to moderate!
@@DTR89 He's an extravert; it's in his personality to continue if the other doesn't insert himself in. And as you can see, Dawkins is not at all in any hurry to insert himself in. Maybe you could also suggest Dawkins to be more active in the interaction?
Dawkins displayed a level of patience the likes of which I have never witnessed. Absolutely painful to listen to Jordan interrupt him even directly after asking him a question. I hope he reads all of these comments and reflects on the fact that this was a grand opportunity wasted.
Rather listen to Jordan ❤
yeah I really admire Dawkin's' patience here. This was a real mess of a conversation, with Peterson meandering all over the place.
Dawkins seems quite interested (possibly contrary to the usual listener, who just wants any side to be "destroyed"). Dawkins also asked most of the questions discussed (in his short time speaking). Peterson needed quite some time to answer Dawkins' questions. Would be very interesting to have it the other way around as well. Peterson's question at minute 21 was not reached until about the 1:21:30 mark, but this was in part also because Dawkins himself had questions for Peterson. Notwithstanding, it took quite some time for Peterson to carefully formulate his questions, maybe he was a bit too careful 🤔 But you gotta love both of them for honestly and open-mindedly seeking truth.
Dawkins tried to get him on track. He realized full well, that there is something not ok with JP at that day / interview. I cannot understand why he put this catastrophy of a word salad online.
He loves to speak what he's speculating in the moment... Fortunately he's remembering much of what he's read!
I've watched 20+ JP interviews, he is very insightful and respectful allowing the guest to talk in all other interviews except for this one. I hope there could be another interview for Richard Dawkins, where he does most of the talking.
This was so helpful in seeing how annoying I must be when I interrupt 🤦🏻♀️
When Jordan mentioned that he had had taken a bunch of psychedelics, I think Richard taught "well that explains the feel of this interview" 😀
Thats so sad I'm so disappointed right now while watching
7 grams of LSD is an insane dose, 500 micrograms is an affective dose. 7 grams wow.
😂
Think he said 7g of psylocybin didn’t he?
@@hebertjerome he took mushrooms
Dawkins, the master of patience.
Dawkins is way too concrete in his thinking. Simply refuses to open his mind to the metaphysical
@@codyflores3920 Which is understandable… I love Peterson but I love truth more and the only thing we can truly rely on is our own experience no matter how appealing peoples words are.
@@letsfindout1621 Ironic you said you love truth more but then proceeds to say we can only rely on our own experience which is highly subjective and not in the least objective. Congrats
@@yeshuaislord6880 Everything is subjective what’s your point?
@@codyflores3920 you mean he refuses to believe fantasy and make believe? Odd statement
1 hour in and it just looks like a missed opportunity. So much wanted to hear a rich discussion between these two.
I mean I would’ve loved to hear Dawkins more as well. But this whole interview is kind of adorable. It’s Jordan getting to fully blast his ideas at one of his intellectual heroes
JP mentioned before that during his first conversation with Sam Harris, he was trying to “win” the conversation. Which is why it went badly - I think he was doing the same here.
This was my impression as well. he was simply star-struck and awkward.
[1:30] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Jordan’s rise to fame, Bill C-16, and Free Speech [5:30] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about the Intimidation and fear of speaking out against the far left [9:10] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Micro retreats [11:40] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Dawkins’ paper about the organism as a model [18:30] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Female sexual selection [21:10] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Differences between Jordan and Dr. Dawkins' thinking [24:00] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Jeffrey Gray, his work on modeling, Psychedelics, and Anxiety [30:00] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Psychedelics, Symbolism, and Consciousness [41:00] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Jordan’s experiences with psilocybin and yoga [45:40] Dawkins listens to Jordan talk about Postmodernism, Lacan, Foucault, and Mikhaila’s Oxford Union debate... I could go on.
I see a pattern emerging
Lol. What does this all mean?!
Nice one
Spot on! I'm a JP fan but this was a seemingly unstructured ramble. I feel for Dawkins..... He seemed to spend the whole time trying to identify any consistent point to respond to from the meandering rambling! Tough ask!
Jordan wants to impress Dawkins
Jordan literally spoke 99% of the time. I wonder how Dawkins felt during that recording.
like handicaped on wheelchair trying play football//soccer...
As somome else said: like being invited to friend's house just to watch your friend play videos games.
Probably disrespected. I think he was fed up tbh...sounded like he was mad to get away from him by the end of it. 😂
Like an Amazonian jungle dweller
Probably skipping between the mic. and a good book and hanging laundry.
About the snakes: Just Google images of snakes mating. They twist together like a helix. There are snakes in almost every single country on the planet. It's not hard to imagine people from different places being mesmerized and depicting this independently of eachother. Im surprised Dawkins didn't bring this fact up. And...holy hell Jordan. What's with the constant interrupting?!
Yes, this was the point that Dawkins lost interest.
I like richard dawkins he always stand on firm ground in his discussions
I don't know if Jordan was star struck or something but I've never heard him prattle on so much. Richard was very patient, I imagine he struggled not to roll his eyes every 2 minutes.
he was high
That's probably why Dawkins didn't want to be on camera. This was horrifying to listen to- and I like listening to Dr. Peterson.
i do get the impression he was star struck
@@whydontyoustfu that’s what I was thinking that jordan was hopped up on adderall
@@cynthiamartini8982 it was a conversation, unfortunately Richard couldn't get a word in edgeways.
I learned a lot from this discussion. I learned how important it is to be a good listener and how dumb it makes you sound to be obsessed with your own thoughts. I also learned how admirable of a quality patience is.
Perfect😂thank you! I really learned a lot from you learning this, cause I'm definitely not Gona waste my time on what I rightfully assumed was gonna be a one sided ramble😂
'It was initially weird for me too; a case of "WTF doy? ... you aware of what 'dialog' means? (or a 'full stop'). Then I thought I'd have another listen, just allowing the words to 'do as they will', And so I stood up straight like the phuking lobster I am, cracked an awe inspiring woody, zoomed up on benzo's, and with some 70's UFO german synthesiser music for background atmosphere, and I listened! Lo and behold, it took on a certain dream logic of its own. Ideas gave way to aesthetics, masculine order, stability and hierarchy lost all form, collapsing into feminine chaos, change, rhizomic flow and bodily discharge. My 'vagenis' changed into a 'pegina' and back again ... and yet I felt perfectly comfortable with this ... as if it were perfectly 'natural'. So now I 'm like "Thank you JP for liberating me in ways you'll never know, and well beyond your best intentions (I wish he was my dad)"
I liked part he said he took 7 grams dry 3 times. Saw dna and molecular level.
@@jonathanalexander9881 I’m CRYING
Ironically, your comment revolves around yourself and addresses no part of the conversation between Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins, who both are capable of demonstrating patience.
20:49 Dawkins is the first person I have seen address this issue with Jordan. I truly try to pay attention to what he's saying and perhaps there is just a huge gap between his knowledge and mine that it's hard for me to follow his chain of thought, but he wanders off into several branches of ideas without ever concluding the first thought. He rambles on and on about a whole variety of different topics and concepts that really have no relevance to the original question or idea so that the listener ends up completely losing focus on what the discussion is even about. By the time he's done rambling, we have lost any sensible grip on what point he's even trying to make. And the fact that Richard calls him out on this, and he addresses it by saying it's a difference in their thinking styles??? He even literally says he's interested in aesthetics while Richard is interested in ideas. So he basically admits that he prefers the use of elaborate language and superficial verbosity without actually getting at the heart of the matter succinctly and effectively. It's perhaps his biggest flaw as a debater. I agree with a good portion of his ideas and I do like listening to him from time to time, but that particular quality of his argument/lecture style is infuriatingly persistent and I think he inadvertently spurns a lot of people that would otherwise really enjoy hearing what he has to say.
Well said
OMG, JP just never stops talkingI I used to like him, but he is in love with the sound of his own voice! This is not a conversation, RD shows great patience with JP's rambling on and on and on!!!!
"So... about the DNA..." " Well I do yoga in the morning " Never laughed so hard
It’s so cringey I feel bad…. Lack of self awareness in a way
@@bperez8656 no doubt it was the medication
It’s funny that he brings it up, but not nonsensical. He was saying the attention of consciousness can be focused on different levels, using yoga as an example of doing that sort of thing. He used that as a jumping off point to theorize that it’s possible to focus that consciousness down to a micro level, to where you are literally conscious of the structure of your dna. It is definitely an out there thing to say, which JP admits, but he did make a point with the yoga story. JP was definitely all over the place on this conversation, but I think you may be being overly dismissive of what was said.
@@brystonhickman366 Agreed. I think that's why he is getting a pass instead of a wtf from most people. I don't think Peterson is capable of speaking without it making sense on some level. It's just that his mind goes several iterations deeper than the current topic (like a chess player) and he tries to skip the intermediate levels . He always does that to a degree but this particular one was almost like a when a child just free associates and rambles crazy stuff which is all technically correct but too disjointed to follow. I think he was intimidated and\or was prepared for a debate instead of a conversation and this tendency took over.
@@bperez8656 You should not be listening to professors talk if you can't understand what they are saying. Stick up to the Kardashians
I felt a bit uncomfortable listening to this. JP was either too excited or nervous. Everything he said was fascinating. But I just wanted him to take a breath and let Dawkins respond with one full sentence. I’m afraid Dawkins might have felt disrespected. I bet a second interview would be more balanced and would push our chimp brains to their limits in the best way.
Felt the same, at 30 min on ...the guest have only spoken for like 1 min
I disagree I think Dawkins is just being a sniper he wants Peterson to say something and tell him he’s talking rubbish and if Dawkins proposes ideas then his ideas come under scrutiny put simply Dawkins is an awkward old sod
@@stereoreviewx I caught this vibe too. Dawkins was trying to pin him down on a statement he made in a lecture and JP had a pretty good response in my opinion.
@@stereoreviewx boy, open your eyes and read more scientific literature besides Peterson’s work
Dr. Dawkins one the greatest intellectuals of our time
I commend Dr Peterson for putting this discussion online, the lessons are huge to draw, first of all, we must appreciate Dawkins who has taught us the power of listening and patience!, the scriptures says when a fool shuts his mouth, he’s thought wise, on the other hand, every one who thinks himself wise must be slow to speak, that’s where the injunction of study to be quiet comes in, it doesn’t matter how intellectually capable Peterson was or is, he messed up in this discuss and to upload it it is sort of a courageous balance that no one is beyond flaws. This is powerful!, for those in the comment section, you guys are just amazing, I am a Peterson fan and will always be, calling him out should still be path of that too, thanks all for keeping it real regardless of our love for him. Thanks again gentlemen👑
“There is intimidation going on, and you’re one that has stood up to intimidation. For that, I salute you.”
Very wholesome. (And important!)
I feel there should be a mediator in the next discussion as I feel that I didn't get enough of an opportunity to listen to Professor Dawkins. In spite of that small complaint, thank you for uploading this. It was very interesting.
Absolutely agree, it was not led well at all
40 mins in an still not much from Dawkins. He's actually trying to be a mediator to keep the discussion on track
but Richard managed to make his point in his short ammount of time to speak. To really understand Jordans point of view, you have to be focused the whole hour+ of info. Also Jordan showed a lot of respect for Richard the whole conversation which is commendable. He knows and shows Richard is the real deal!
@@suggestivewondered179 It's that slimy faux deference that Peterson oozes when in the presence of his intellectual superiors only to turn around to sneer at them behind their backs as "The new atheist types like Harris and Dawkins". Who get it all wrong...
I think it was better for their methods of thinking and communication to emerge naturally. A mediator could constrain them to a given topic, but hearing them negotiate that for themselves was both entertaining and informative. Letting them exist as humans, not cut clean by a program. I love that.
People are mistaking Dawkins' "Patience" as him simply not having the energy he used to to fly with the conversation. He's still great to listen to.
Never thought I'd turn off a Dawkins interview.
Dawkins is an excellent listener
The gap between them in knowledge is just way to big I think
When I was 14, Dawkins appealed to me because I was just becoming an atheist edgelord. Now at 29, I'm much more into Dr. Peterson and am of course a different person than I was 15 years ago. Seeing this is like having a debate with my former self.
And now you've become a "theist edgelord" instead, or?
@@proudatheist2042 A Reddit moderator.
This is 100% accurate.
1 cor 13:11
@@proudatheist2042 An atheist edgelord, to me, is someone who becomes atheist because it's slightly foreign and makes them feel smart rather than having a considerable amount of logic for why they are an atheist.
I didn't know Richard Dawkins was so kind. Respect.
The part I love most about this conversation is how, at the end part, I get to listen and go along on a stroll across the Oxford campus with Richard Dawkins and Jordan Peterson.
Cambridge
@@OldSkoolUncleChris I'm just assumed Oxford because that's where Dawkins is based, and at the beginning of the video he says "...so I walked over to, aha, as it turned out, a chapel on the Oxford campus, and that wasn't the place that Dr. Dawkins wanted to go with me..." and if they were at Cambridge that would be a 25 hour walk.
The best part is listening to them open doors and stroll the Oxford campus as they talk at the end.
"I meant no more than they meant yes." That's it. That's the secret sauce to solving government overreach. Call it out where it is, refuse to comply, and stand your ground. Living in fear of the overreach will not make it go away.
exactly
That is ONE of the steps to solving government overreach. ^^ If a critical mass of people don't do it with you, you can get forgotten in jail. Perspective.
Thank you Dr. Peterson for your insightful podcast. I wish Mr. Dawkins had equal time to express his ideas. Hopefully there will be a round two coming up.
It's never going to happen. Peterson came across as quite deranged in this outburst. Dawkins was a bystander.
41:20 is hilarious: Peterson: I think human beings can sometimes see into the microlevel of reality. Dawkins: ...what? Peterson: Yes, I've done drugs.
DMT is a drug that can lead you there I guess
Dr. Dawkins diagnoses Dr. Peterson very well and perhaps too gently.
This conversation really needed a central question stated at the outset to keep the discussion on track. Peterson just ended up indulging his on-the-spot creativity to draw together lots of ideas that are probably somehow related, but which didn't form a coherent attempt to conclude anything.
It's very much reminiscent of ADHD where one line of thinking flows to another inconclusively. It's been hellish in my life, but seeing someone like Jordan Peterson having a control over the coherence of the thought whilst following the flow an ADHD-akin mind-process is really intriguing to me.
Round II is needed. Preferably with a moderator asking the questions and giving fair and ample time to both Jordan and Dawkins.
Exactly. Another talk would require a moderator. Someone that sits in between philosophically. Perhaps Bret Weinstein
It's not a debate though.
@@WombatKnul ikr!? moderators for conversations? what next ...safe-spaces?
@@jimo9555 Hhahaha
@@WombatKnul True but these two are heavyweights in their respective fields and are diametrically opposed on certain issues (i.e religion’s influence on society). There is also so much these two can discuss so a moderator may be needed to ask all the questions the audience is interested in and to manage time constraints. This conversation was essentially a one way street.
I have heard podcasts where commercials get more time than Dawkins got in this interview.