#330 - Deceiving Ourselves: A Dialogue with Ajit Varki
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Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Ajit Varki about the evolutionary origins of denial and self-deception. They discuss the evolutionary perspective of human origins, self-awareness in humans, theory of mind, and how false beliefs and denial evolved. They also discuss lying, self-deception, religion, positive uses of deception, climate change, future of Mind Over Reality theory, and many more topics.
#330 - Deceiving Ourselves: A Dialogue with Ajit Varki
#330 - Deceiving Ourselves: A Dialogue with…
#330 - Deceiving Ourselves: A Dialogue with Ajit Varki
Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Ajit Varki about the evolutionary origins of denial and self-deception. They discuss the evolutionary perspective of human origins, self-awareness in humans, theory of mind, and how false beliefs and denial evolved. They also discuss lying, self-deception, religion, positive uses of deception, climate change, future of Mind Over Reality theory, and many more topics.