“The problem with human brains is that they are too smart to be good.”

A sentence spoken by one of my cat’s siblings

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Frank, are you okay?

I’m fine

The problem with human brains is that they are so clever that they don’t understand why their brain is so clever

this is true!  There’s a lot of things that the brain can intuit before it learns how to consciously do it: like statistics when gambling!  Nature is beautiful because by happenstance it can be unconsciously smarter than the actual human mind.

I always assumed the “too clever to be good” phrase was just a way of saying something like “too smart to have consistent motives.”

Sometimes the brain outsmarts the mine, it may not be consistent, but it’s not a bad thing, Frank.