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#32： Hormonal Imprinting ｜ Fake History ｜ Aristotelian Philosophy ｜ Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Lysenko [famOF8GYlbg] — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview #32： Hormonal Imprinting ｜ Fake History ｜ Aristotelian Philosophy ｜ Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Lysenko [famOF8GYlbg]. The excerpt begins at 01:29:07 and runs for 1 minute 21 seconds.

One of Lenin's best pieces of writing was explaining essentially that the concept of materialism in the West is pure idealism, absolutely the negation of materialism in Lenin's sense. Lenin said knowledge is composed of memory, but the memories are recordings of experience, and experience is always new. The source of experience is matter, and so matter is only what is potential to be experienced. So materialism means looking to the future and the possibilities of experience, where the genetics and reductionists try to base their rationalism on an organization of existing knowledge, pre-existing ideas,