Friday, March 23, 2018

Quote of the Day

Why are so many of these selfish human motivation kept unconscious in the first place, rather than simply being conscious and well hidden? … The obvious rebuttal here is that we should just have evolved to not have those leaky, difficult-to-suppress emotional responses, or for those responses not to have evolved in the first place.

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Robin Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain: The Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

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