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Lying's complex. It's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives.
說謊這事挺復雜的。這跟我們的日常生活與工作交織在一起。
We're deeply ambivalent about the truth.
我們對真相總是拿捏不準。
We parse it out on an as-needed basis, sometimes for very good reasons, other times just because we don't understand the gaps in our lives.
我們在需要的時候才來分析它，有時候是情理之中的，而有時候則是因為我們不理解生活中現實與理想的差距。
That's truth number two about lying.
這是關于說謊的第二條真相。
We're against lying, but we're covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries and centuries.
我們反對說謊，但背地里贊同說謊，我們的社會對種種這些做法包容了好幾百年。
It's as old as breathing. It's part of our culture, it's part of our history. Think Dante, Shakespeare, the Bible, News of the World.
其歷史源遠流長。是我們文化和歷史的一部分，想想看但丁、莎士比亞、圣經、世界新聞報。
Lying has evolutionary value to us as a species.
說謊在人類進化上有著重要價值。
Researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species, the larger the neocortex, the more likely it is to be deceptive.
研究者早就知道物種的智慧越高，大腦皮層越大，這個物種就更可能欺騙。
Now you might remember Koko. Does anybody remember Koko the gorilla who was taught sign language?
你們可能還記得可可，有人還記得那只學會手語的大猩猩可可嗎？
Koko was taught to communicate via sign language.
可可學會如何用手語進行交流。
Here's Koko with her kitten. It's her cute little, fluffy pet kitten.
這是可可和她的小貓。這就是她毛茸茸的可愛小貓咪。
Koko once blamed her pet kitten for ripping a sink out of the wall.
可可有一次責備她的小貓，怪它把洗手池從墻上剝下來。
