Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - The Primary Fact of Experience lyrics

So, I'm gonna tell you today about a
Way of looking at the world that
I think is substantially different
From the way most people look at the world
The standard scientific view of
The world of course
Is that it's made up of familiar objects
And that the world is in essence
A material place, but there are some
Very potent limitations of that viewpoint
Despite the fact that it's
Given us tremendous power
And the limitations are
Essentially as follows

The essential matеrialist view can't
Tell us anything about the consciousnеss
Which is probably the primary
Fact of experience
The essential materialist view can't
Tell us anything about the consciousness
Which is probably the primary
Fact of experience

Neuroscientists in recent years
Mostly in the last decade have
Been trying to crack the
Problem of consciousness
And they have absolutely made no progress
Not only do neuroscientists understand
Virtually nothing about consciousness
They can't even really figure out
What it's function is
And they can't understand why
Our brains would go to so
Much effort to make us
Aware of things when it isn't clear at all
That awareness is necessary for life
Especially given that there are many
Life forms on the
Planet that don't seem to be aware at all

The essential materialist view can't
Tell us anything about the consciousness
Which is probably the primary
Fact of experience
The essential materialist view can't
Tell us anything about the consciousness
Which is probably the primary
Fact of experience

The standard materialist view is also
Insufficient in many other ways
Insufficient philosophically, I think as
You probably all know
Because a conception that portrays the
World is made up of objects is in some
Really fundamental way dead
And it doesn't seem to have a
Place in it for human beings
Or a place in it for meaning
Or a mood whereby you might
Be able to conceptualize the
Real existence of something like an
Emotion, or a dream, or a motivation
All phenomena which are just
As mysterious to neuroscientists
And to scientists in general as consciousness
Now, the problem with this seems
To be mostly experiential
If you have to ask people what
They know more than anything else
They know, number one that they're conscious
They know, number two
That their internal experiential life is
Composed of emotions and motivational
States, which although not rational
In the central
Structure are so real and relevant
That virtually everything that people do
Is predicated on them

The essential materialist view can't
Tell us anything about the consciousness
Which is probably the primary
Fact of experience
The essential materialist view can't
Tell us anything about the consciousness
Which is probably the primary
Fact of experience

So our current viewpoint
Despite it's ability to give
Us tremendous technological
Power seems to eradicate
From formal consideration
Many, many essential experiences that are
Vital to life, in fact, even perhaps primary
I'm gonna suggest to you today
If there's an alternative viewpoint
And I think also it's one that although
You may be hearing about it formally for the
First time is also something that you know
Unbelievably deeply (Unbelievably deeply)
(Unbelievably deeply, Unbelievably deeply)
(Unbelievably deeply)