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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Sir Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics, and General Relativity
Sir Roger Penrose on Mathematics and World Reflections
What's Beyond Physics?
Can the Brain Explain Art?
What is Philosophy of Art?
Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
The Mystery of Existence
Can Art Clarify the Mind-Body Problem?
Does Information Create the Cosmos?
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 1)
What Exists? (Part 2)
Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?
Can Brain Explain Mind?
Where are All Those Aliens?
Big Questions in Free Will (Part 2)
What is the Mind-Body Problem?
Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
How Could God Interact with the World?
Toward a Science of Consciousness
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