# Danny Brower **Domain:** Human Origins / Cognitive Denial **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Danny Brower** coauthored *Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind* with [[wiki/Ajit Varki|Ajit Varki]]. A publicly published excerpt of the book states their joint argument about reality denial and technological capacity. It should be attributed to both authors rather than to Varki alone. ## Relationships - **Coauthored with:** [[wiki/Ajit Varki|Ajit Varki]]; both are credited on the [*Salon* excerpt from *Denial*](https://www.salon.com/2013/05/25/from_global_warming_to_fluoride_why_do_people_deny_science/) (2013). - **Conceptual route:** [[wiki/Self-Deception|Self-Deception]] concerns a related but broader class of cognitive phenomena; no equivalence with one particular mechanism follows merely from terminology. - **Collection and article routes:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]], and [[articles/Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems|Humans and AIs as Entangled Learning Systems]] are reader routes, not an attribution of those articles to the coauthors. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “The potent combination of our powerful intelligence with our massive reality denial has led to a dangerous world.” > **— Ajit Varki and Danny Brower**, *Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind*, excerpt in Salon, 2013 [[reminders/Deception/Intelligence and Reality Denial Made a Dangerous World by Ajit Varki and Danny Brower|Intelligence and Reality Denial Made a Dangerous World by Ajit Varki and Danny Brower]]