What can we learn when people deceive? There are all kinds of deception: from lying, duplicity, and disguises, to propaganda, disinformation, and deep fakes. Self-deception, too, offers insight. Why would evolution select for deceiving ourselves? Is deception bred into us, affecting all humans?
This episode features interviews with Joshua Greene, V.S. Ramachandran, Robert Trivers, and Max Tegmark.
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What is the Deep Meaning of Probability?
Martin Rees on Cosmology and Existential Risk
When Brains Go Bad
Jesus as God: A Philosophical Inquiry
Freeman Dyson: From Physics to the Far Future
How Does the Subconscious Affect Us?
What Are Breakthroughs in Mathematics?
Terrence Deacon on the Noosphere
Philip Goff on the Purpose of the Universe
Why is Mathematics True and Beautiful?
Can We Survive Death?
Can Art Probe Creativity?
What Makes Brains Conscious?
Dan Dennett on the Mysteries of the Mind
Will Kinney on Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe
The Marvels of Space-Time
Samuel Lebens on Jewish Philosophy
What Exists?
What Are Dreams About?
What is Time?
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