Why Our Brains Work Against Our Best Interests
"Why are we as a species so often so desperately poor at achieving our goals? If we are, as the selfish-gene theory would have it, organisms that exist only to serve the interests of our genes, why do we waste so much of our time doing things that are not, in any obvious way, remotely in the interest of our genes?" Los Angeles Times 05/04/08

Posted May 6, 2008 03:00 PM