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Ep 331: Gurwinder Bhogal Examines Human Nature

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Intelligence

In order to perform mental gymnastics as we say you actually require quite a bit of intelligence. And the reason for this is that it requires a lot of intelligence to rationalize one's behavior and one's beliefs. People seem to think that if you're intelligent that means you've got greater access to the truth but that's not what intelligence is. In many ways in many cases the goal will actually be unintelligent and by that I mean it'll be the goal of trying to believe something that's not true.

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