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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Better Place if Everyone Reads Your Book?
"It wouldn't help if everyone read like that book or listen to a lecture about how the amygdala develops," he says. "Most of human misery is not due to rational decisions most of human misery is due to rationalized ones again you can't reason somebody out of a stance they weren't reason to do in the first place" He adds, "We are running on the means by which we could make rationalization seem rational thanks to our emotions."
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