You Are A Hypocrite

 

Here’s the exciting thing about brains: “The same idea in your head can be represented along with its contradiction.” At least that’s what fascinates Robert Kurzban, author of Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.

Kurzban, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, paced the stage and explained the scientific causes of hypocricy to a politically attuned crowd at the Actor’s Gang in Culver City.

Built for Inconsistency

Kurzban explained that our bodies and minds are filled with modules, devices that have “a narrow function.” The sole purpose …