Self-Delusion Trumps Intelligence

Metacognition Is The Faculty That Allows Us To Clearly See When Our Thoughts, Motivations, Desires, Ideas, And Actions, Are Incoherent

Interpretation of Robertson’s Fantasmagorie from F. Marion’s L’Optique (1867) | Public Domain

Robert Oppenheimer is famous for uttering a quote from the Bhagavad Gita at the successful test of his brainchild, the atomic bomb: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”