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Authority, Violent AI, & Myth of Self - Dr. Thomas Metzinger, J. Gutenberg University of Mainz

The DemystifySci Podcast

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Are You a Conspiracy Theorist?

We are biologically evolved organisms and we have these reality models in our brains. And that those reality models were never developed to give us an accurate picture of reality. They weren't even optimized for happiness or life satisfaction. So we have also evolved like Robert Trivers has shown that what has been an evolution of self deception. We have tons of well documented cognitive biases as a result of this evolutionary process.

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