Show Notes
Deep dive into Gary Marcus’s Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind. We explore how evolution’s haphazard path produced a cobbled-together brain rather than a supercomputer. Recognise why our memories fail and beliefs are biased, then learn to outwit this biological kluge to improve your overall behaviour and choices.
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