He says, Why would natural selection design a brain that leaves people deluded about themselves. One answer is that if we believe something about ourselves that will help us convince other people to believe it, and certainly it's to our benefit, or more precisely, it would have been to the benefit of the genes of our hunter gatherer ancestors to convince the world that we're coherent, consistent actors who have things under control. And then he brings up an experiment which he outlined earlier, where they took people with a split brain, that is for some reason or other, often because of intractable brain problems. People who have the word, who have intractable seizures, they actually have to cut the corpus callosum, all the wiring that goes from the left hemisphere to the right hemisphere, and vice versa. So when you have somebody like that, and you show them something which they see with their right eye, which, of course, connects to the left side of the brain, the left hemisphere. When you show them something to the left hemisphere, they can read it. They know what it is. It's conscious. But when you show it to the right hemisphere, the right hemisphere knows about it, but the conscious mind does not. So it opens up the possibility to do some really, really fascinating experiments. So they did these they I've read a couple accounts of it, not only the one from Robert Wright. And in one, I guess the experimenters were outside a guy's house. They had him in a van, and they were showing, don't know if the van had windows either. Anyway, they were showing him words that only his right brain could see. So one of the words they showed him was walk. And at this point, he got up and walked out of the van, and they said, Where are you going? And of course, he had no idea why he'd got up to walk. He'd got a command. He didn't know about it, and his right brain was taking him off on his walk. So he on the spot, said, I'm going to the house to get a coke. He made up a reason. This happens again and again. There's another experiment where they show people pictures. These are, again, split brain people, so new category of people, so they need their rights protected, not be subject to cruel experiments. These aren't cruel. They showed they showed someone a bunch of pictures, and on the left side, they saw a chicken claw, and on the right side they saw a shovel. And then they were given a bunch of pictures and asked which one related to what they'd seen. All they'd seen was the chicken claw. So the let's see the left brain, right hand, the right hand pointed to a chicken, and they were able to explain that chicken claw chicken, the left hand was pointing to a shovel, because that's what the right side had been shown. Why are you pointing to the shovel? Well, you need a shovel to clean up the chicken shit afterwards. So this is something that we do without think. About it. Roshi Kapleau used to always say, the reason people give for things are not the real reason we make our decisions. We choose what to do and what to say based on input that we're not always aware of. Sometimes we are, but more often we're not, and we come to our decisions by processes that we're not aware of. We all tend to react well to people who seem to know what they're doing, who are decisive. I remember Roshi saying about somebody often wrong but never in doubt, more than one person, but there is, there's something exhilarating about being sure of yourself. It's definitely a good strategy for getting your DNA where you want to get it, or maybe where you don't want to get it. Yeah, yeah.