rossbates on Nostr: I'm not sure if you've ever listened to the cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, but ...

I'm not sure if you've ever listened to the cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, but I'm always struck by his level-headed and non-judgmental description of how humans can be duplicitous.

“The very things that make you so intelligently adaptive simultaneously make you vulnerable to self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior.”

It’s not an endorsement, or an excuse, it’s a warning.

That quote came from his Awakening From the Meaning Crisis lecture series which mark (npub1h2s…zhwd) did a wonderful job summarizing here

https://markmulvey.medium.com/