Deceiving Ourselves About Self-Deception

Were we just the Darwinian adaptive survival/reproduction machines Von Hippel & Trivers invoke to explain us, the self-deception problem would not only be simpler but non-existent. Why would unconscious robots bother to misinform themselves so as to misinform others more effectively? But as we a...

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Main Author: Harnad, Stevan (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2010.
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