I have also been influenced by the book “Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite” by Roger Kurzban. Taking an evolutionary approach to the development of the mind, Kurzban argues that it would be valuable and important that parts of us know and understand things that aren’t made available to our conscious mind. In other words, keeping us living in some level of illusion is, evolutionarily speaking, a trait that would be favored to be passed on.
On this topic, I found this talk interesting and challenging. https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is?showDubbingTooltip=true&language=en
I have also been influenced by the book “Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite” by Roger Kurzban. Taking an evolutionary approach to the development of the mind, Kurzban argues that it would be valuable and important that parts of us know and understand things that aren’t made available to our conscious mind. In other words, keeping us living in some level of illusion is, evolutionarily speaking, a trait that would be favored to be passed on.