Your thoughts are the handmaiden of your aim

From Joe Rogan Experience #2180 - Jordan Peterson | 1:58:12:

What Al will do will depend on the intent of the people who design it. Here's a terrifying thing, you tell me what you think about this: Your thoughts are orienting phenomena. You think so that you can lay out a pathway to a desired destination and then you can evaluate the thought to see if that's a good strategy to get there. So there's an implication that comes along with that. A thought enters the theater of your imagination, in relationship to your goal. You can formulate that in religious language. The nature of the spirit that answers your prayers will be dependent on the nature of your prayer. Yeah that's for sure. So imagine that you're harboring feelings of resentment and bitterness as you're plotting your economic pathway forward and so you're trying to think about what you should do but you have the spirit of resentment, bitterness, sitting on your shoulder. The thoughts that enter your mind are going to be a consequence of your possession by that bitterness to the degree that you've allowed it to shape your goal. Here's a corollary of that, this is stunning, It's a stunning thing to understand. If you orient your aim upward, in the highest manner, the spirit that informs your thought will be the spirit of the highest possible aim. God that's something to know, man. So that's what a fundamental religious practice is for. It's like, get rid of the corrupt motivation. Get rid of it, get rid of it. Pray for the Salvation of your soul, that you're aiming right. Because your aim is going to determine the content of your thoughts. That is how it works technically. That's how it works neuropsychologically. Your thoughts are the handmaiden of your aim.