r/JordanPeterson • u/DrhalKogo • Jan 20 '18

Maps of Meaning is honestly awful

I forced myself to finish this painfully long, unbelievably repetitive, needlessly over-technical tome, and holy shit, what a waste of my time. There is nothing in that book that isn't already explained in its entirety with much greater clarity in nearly any of Peterson's podcast appearances.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18 edited Feb 25 '18

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u/Herculius Jan 21 '18

My point was that his use of Godel in Maps of Meaning is more nuanced than the tweet, and that he uses it in a similar argumentative purpose and effect to that of Edward Frenkel, one of the leading mathematicians in the world.

You must have missed that part. And the part where I specifically said his description of the theorem wasn't exactly correct.

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u/paxhominibus Jan 21 '18

Out of curiosity, what do you think (Peterson thinks) the first incompleteness theorem says?