The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson

The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson

The authors' claim is that we are strategically self-deceived: the mind conceals its real motives from its own conscious part, because a person who genuinely believes their own cover story is far more convincing than one who is acting.

Then they apply it. Body language, laughter, conversation as a display of having useful knowledge rather than an exchange of it, consumption as signalling, art, charity, education as credentialing rather than learning, medicine as demonstrating that someone cares, and religion as community. Each chapter is uncomfortable in a specific way.

One of the most provocative books on human behaviour of recent years.

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