Sublime

Most of us can grasp the substance of a problem and even be provided with a means for overcoming it, yet we often still fail. It is this gap between awareness and action that set me on a path to write this book. I wanted to know why humans so often do things not in our best interest.

Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, the independent scholar and writer Edward Tenner

what some neuroscientists call wetware (the biological corollary to computer hardware)?

The flip side of this reality is that our big brains, advanced as they are, come with an array of complex shortcomings and are also expert at transmitting these shortcomings.

David Hume,

only a brain advanced enough to engage in complex thought and self-reflection is susceptible to the fuzzy mystification that obscures from view how our minds really work.