In your basic experience of encountering something new, you unconsciously perform the same operations God performs: you encounter something as potential/puzzle, you identify it, you judge whether it's good or dangerous, and you integrate it into your understanding—this is how all perception and consciousness works.

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Speaker

Jonathan Pageau

Evidence Quote

You walk in, you see the glass, you identify it, you judge if it's good... this is true about everything you encounter

Source

A Lecture by Jonathan Pageau: The Symbolic World | EP 206Jordan B Peterson
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:46:10 AM

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