Comments on: The evolutionary necessity of lying http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/12/the-evolutionary-necessity-of-lying/ Sat, 25 May 2013 17:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: RKU http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/12/the-evolutionary-necessity-of-lying/#comment-38788 RKU Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:42:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=14936#comment-38788 Maybe I'll try to somehow find the time to read this book. Over the last few years I've come up with some highly speculative but intriguing ideas in exactly this area, and it will be interesting to see whether Trivers already thought of them all decades ago. Maybe I’ll try to somehow find the time to read this book. Over the last few years I’ve come up with some highly speculative but intriguing ideas in exactly this area, and it will be interesting to see whether Trivers already thought of them all decades ago.

]]> By: Åse http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/12/the-evolutionary-necessity-of-lying/#comment-38787 Åse Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:56:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=14936#comment-38787 I just read it. It is a quick read. It is somewhat depressing, but also very interesting, and he really makes it clear that the idea of deception is evolutionarily deep. (the idea of deception/concealment etc comes up so much in my psych surroundings. I don't think it always appreciates the depth of why humans conceal parts, and why humans try to detect it). It is interesting to now read Gazzaniga's "who is in charge". Because one wonders how much control we have of the deception and self deceptions, or if they happen way before our consciousness. I have a bachelor's student right now who is doing some work involving deception, and I sent him von Hippel's and Trivers Behavioral and Brain sciences article http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8027004 which I gather he is using (so that will be interesting read after christmas). I need to get his collected papers. I just read it. It is a quick read. It is somewhat depressing, but also very interesting, and he really makes it clear that the idea of deception is evolutionarily deep. (the idea of deception/concealment etc comes up so much in my psych surroundings. I don’t think it always appreciates the depth of why humans conceal parts, and why humans try to detect it). It is interesting to now read Gazzaniga’s “who is in charge”. Because one wonders how much control we have of the deception and self deceptions, or if they happen way before our consciousness. I have a bachelor’s student right now who is doing some work involving deception, and I sent him von Hippel’s and Trivers Behavioral and Brain sciences article http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8027004 which I gather he is using (so that will be interesting read after christmas).

I need to get his collected papers.

]]> By: Rob http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/12/the-evolutionary-necessity-of-lying/#comment-38786 Rob Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:05:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=14936#comment-38786 A fun and pungent recent interview with Trivers: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201111171000 And, you may already know, he co-authored a B&BS target article on the topic earlier this year: http://tinyurl.com/cglg27u A fun and pungent recent interview with Trivers:
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201111171000

And, you may already know, he co-authored a B&BS target article on the topic earlier this year:
http://tinyurl.com/cglg27u

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