Happiness – A Theory: How our Brains Lie to Us
Friday, May 29, 2009 - 09:14
in Psychology & Sociology
The dialectic between descent with modification and the expanded cortex of the mammalian brain appears to have led to a kind of “house of mirrors” in humans. The smarter we get, it seems, the more we believe in our perceptions, while our brains work overtime to concoct a version of reality divorced from the evidence.