How reliable are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves?
Descartes considered the mind to be fully self-transparent; that is, he thought that we need only introspect to know what goes on inside our own minds. More recently, social psychology has shown that a great deal of high-level cognition takes place at an unconscious level, inaccessible to introspection. How then do we gain insight into ourselves? Are there other reliable routes to self-knowledge, or are we condemned to being forever deluded about who we truly are? John and Ken look inward with Timothy Wilson from the University of Virginia, co-author of Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By. Sunday 6/26 at 10 am and Tuesday 6/28 at 12 noon.