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Envy and The Elephant in the Brain

Not Overthinking

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The Human Brain Is Not a Truth Claim

The human brain, according to this view, was designed to deceive itself the better o to deceive others. And so they kind of build up a basic argument from the ground up following this sort of six part framework. Until we ultimately arrive at this conclusion that we all have the selfish hidden motives for a lot of the things that we do, and that we're not even aware of the thingsthat we're doing.

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