/lit/ - Literature

>>9764385
>Are the methods of science not action? If meaning is shaped as a consequence of social interaction, can't it be 'validly construed' that social interaction can shape the idea that there is no meaning?

Peterson argues that, despite its achievements, hard science (the objective description of the world of things) is unable to give you even basic advice on how to live your life and how to get the future you want. The world is too complex to comprehend and therefore you can not derive a moral good from scientific fact. You cant derive an "ought" form an "is".

>>9764466
Currently doing so, but I never understood the value of the heroes journey before Peterson slapped it across my face. They are just the foundation for his reasoning.

>>9764459
>laws of physics
Those are a mathematical construction. An observation. Not an actual provable law. You need some mathematic axioms for them to even work and nobody known if those axioms are even correct. Math is not an objective description of reality. It's just good enough and we need to keep updating it, but it is my no means complete. In fact, Gödel proves that if it were complete it would no longer be free of paradoxes. Basically, a "theory of everything" based on mathematics is impossible, proven my mathematics itself.

>>9764468
>reddit
>/r/badX
Literally nothing but an elitist circle jerk for arrogant first year college students. I actually had hoped that understanding mathematics could be the solution, but when I took meta logic in college and came across Gödel I realized that I was mistaken. If math can't prove itself right it's not as powerful as I thought. Also if you look at the profile of anyone who bashes Peterson in these type of reddit threads, you will almost always find out that they are SJWs or socialists. Really makes me think. They also never try to refute him directly, instead they just act smug and condescending without actually making any point what so ever. Much like the shitposters in this thread actually.