The Key to Effective Lying.
The Unique Human Skill?
Believe what you Say and say what you Believe.
Did you know that a Goldfish has the cognitive ability to learn a complex task in a given environment?
So one thing that humans have that any other species on earth does not, is the capability of lying.
Other species are capable of deceiving by using camouflage etc. but lying using language and words is probably a unique skill for humans.
Recently though, Orcas are found to communicate and “prank”-maybe lie with each other and other species through their language but humans are still not on the level of fully grasping what certain other species are able to do.
Lying is a skill that has brought the human race to at least think we have conquered the earth and can decide anything we want without many consequences.
Humans have eventually become so good at lying about anything that we have even started to integrate this into our tools, such as AI, ML etc..
“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words; a lie may be told by silence, by equivocation, by the accent on a syllable, by a glance of the eyes, attaching a peculiar significance to a word, and in countless other ways.” St. Augustine.
