#268 - The Limits of Self-Knowledge
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Paradox of Self-Deception
We model or we create narratives to explain the behavior of others. We seem to create a similar self narrative and that can hear more or less with reality. When it decouples completely then we're in the realm of psychosis or confabulation. There are all these biases in belief and confidence that people like Daniel Kahneman have famously documented. People's metacognition isn't very good they are sometimes confident that they've got the right answer even though it's clearly wrong. It would be super interesting to know whether we're at some level doing that to ourselves, he says.
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