Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-04-18
Jordan Peterson & Tor Nørretranders: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #441
441. Dreams, Stories, Psychedelics & Consciousness | Tor Nørretranders
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with author and speaker Tor Nørretranders. They discuss the entropy of emotion, the nature of pointlessness, the over-civilization of societal structures, how relationships shape perception, and why play might be the antithesis to tyranny.
Jordan Peterson recommended The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception by James J. Gibson, and discussed The user illusion by Tor Nørretranders, Dennett's philosophy, and The Neuropsychology of Anxiety by Jeffrey Alan Gray and others. Tor Nørretranders discussed Dark Nature by Lyall Watson and The doors of perception by Aldous Huxley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The user illusion
Discussed“The book I know best is probably his most famous work called 'The User Illusion.'”
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Dennett's philosophy
Discussed“I read Daniel Dennett's book and also Jeffrey Gray's book; Gray is a real genius.”
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The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
Discussed“I read Daniel Dennett's book and also Jeffrey Gray's book; Gray is a real genius.”
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The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception
Recommended“Gibson wrote a great book called 'The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception,' and I believe there are brilliant concepts within it.”
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Dark Nature
Discussed“I read in a book many years ago by L Watson a British biologist who most famous for his book super nature that he wrote In the late 70s”
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The doors of perception
Discussed“I think Alis harkley in this book dos of perception from the 50s of 60s that I quote uh in in the user illusion book”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The user illusion
“he uh he used masculine I think it was and yeah it was masculine and and talked about this this opening of of of the mind”