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The Folly of Fools
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (2011) by Robert Trivers is a book that examines the evolutionary explanations for deceit and self-deception. Trivers' starting point is to illustrate that self-deception is something of an evolutionary puzzle. While the evolutionary benefits to deceiving other organisms are obvious at first glance it seems highly counter intuitive to think that it could ever be in the evolutionary interest of an organism to deceive itself...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Folly_of_Fools
