1) What mathematics are you referring to? Does Peterson know it? I’d always just assumed that dna is helical because… it is connected by two strands, and those strands happen to rotate a bit when they connect to each base pair, due to some quirk of chemistry that definitely isn’t something you’d ever want to discuss in art unless you knew what DNA was. It’s conceivable that some ancient somewhere did somehow anticipate that life would contain strands of codings, but why would they anticipate that every strand would be paired with a mirror?
2) But telos has nothing to do with deities, and belief/intuition that it does is a really pernicious delusion. What is this supposed to explain or excuse? It’s just another insane thing that a person would not think if they’d started from sound premises.
I never really doubted that there would be some very understandable, human story behind how Jordan Peterson synthesised his delusions. I am not moved by hearing them.
1) What mathematics are you referring to? Does Peterson know it? I’d always just assumed that dna is helical because… it is connected by two strands, and those strands happen to rotate a bit when they connect to each base pair, due to some quirk of chemistry that definitely isn’t something you’d ever want to discuss in art unless you knew what DNA was. It’s conceivable that some ancient somewhere did somehow anticipate that life would contain strands of codings, but why would they anticipate that every strand would be paired with a mirror?
2) But telos has nothing to do with deities, and belief/intuition that it does is a really pernicious delusion. What is this supposed to explain or excuse? It’s just another insane thing that a person would not think if they’d started from sound premises.
I never really doubted that there would be some very understandable, human story behind how Jordan Peterson synthesised his delusions. I am not moved by hearing them.