
Brains
The Infinite Monkey Cage
How to Understand the Human Brain
Lying and deception is dependent on one of those amazing brain abilities that have been totally taken for granted until about 50 years ago. We're intensely social primates from the minute we're born, developing as brains are created by other brains around the world. You'd also need to hink about well, what culture is it growing up in? What is it learning about? Because actually, where you grow up does affect how your brain works. People growing up in northern nemibia have very different attentional systems than people who grew up in southern Africa. And then, of course, when i can't emphasize enough, we don't grow in isolation. Do we know a number of gig
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