The Benefits of Reducing Self-Deceptions

Sally Kohn: Do you think that these delusions don't serve a useful purpose in sort of a psychological propaganda? Or do you just think that, yes, they do, but the suffering they cause us outweighs it? She says she largely agrees with Rob Kurzban's view. He reached his idea that the self doesn't exist before he was at all conversant in Buddhism.Kohn: But as for the, I'm certainly not denying that various distortions that natural selection might have built into our minds are in some sense useful in the modern world.