“If the brain needs … to make pair-bonding compatible with self-awareness—it will lie, shamelessly, as mush as it has to, in order to make the strategy succeed.”
Neat typo: it preserves the meaning of the passage. If you don’t see how, read it as “If the brain needs you to feel romantic love, it will lie—as mush, it has to—in order to succeed.”
“If the brain needs … to make pair-bonding compatible with self-awareness—it will lie, shamelessly, as mush as it has to, in order to make the strategy succeed.”
Neat typo: it preserves the meaning of the passage. If you don’t see how, read it as “If the brain needs you to feel romantic love, it will lie—as mush, it has to—in order to succeed.”