Humans, by ScottTheSculptor

The main evolutionary drive for all life is superior speed and accuracy in logical extrapolation. Every creature on the planet takes sensory information and "decides" the appropriate action warranted from that collected data. If food is detected, even the simplest single cell organism has to perform a logical sequence of tasks to procure it. If a predator is detected then the proper sequence of actions will keep you alive. Even an act as simple as reaching out and picking up another cheezy-poof takes a logical extrapolation based on a sensed three dimensional dataset that contains both the environment and the abilities of the host. The better the ability the better the *individual* can flourish in the environment. The further ahead and faster an individual can extrapolate the more advantages to that evolutionary individual. Predators must get cleverer to catch prey, prey must get cleverer to escape them. All creatures live in a constant cloud of calculations of future possiblities. The cleverest are more likely to survive.

So evolution drives greater abilities in logical extrapolation. Humans are the peak land animal in these abilities.

Then why oh why are we so stupid? Let me explain . . .

A basic ability to store emotional information is present in any herd mammal. It takes an emotional attachment to another individual to "want" to stay together. All mammals are conscious of other individuals enough to recognize these emotional attachments. A cat and a bison have different levels of emotional storage/attachment abilities. The enhanced ability has evolutionary advantage in increased birthrate through constant contact with a variety of individuals across many bloodlines and corresponding protection of the young from the mass of the herd. Though this can lead to mindless overpopulation.

The pack takes these attachments to a new level. No individual creature can survive against a pack of predators. The evolutionary advantage of all the predators working together is unstoppable. A single human can't kill a mammoth or build a space shuttle. Get any group of humans together and they start thinking the same. Emotional experiences accelerate this. The pack is an organism that is created by a group of humans. The first abstraction (beginning of symbolism) is pack rank. As human pack size increased the need and therefore ability to recognize rank increased.
When large packs mixed or if packs merged rank became formalized. Formalized rank require the use of recognizable rank symbols."assuming" postions in the pack. Humans automatically meld their mind to focus on and achieve the goal of the "pack mind" organsim. We celebrate teams and decry mobs . . . yet they stem from the same ability.

All creatures have their senses directly hardwired to memory, humans can store emotional memory with sensed data and use that to sort the memories for both faster access and to emotionally attach to people, things, places, ideas, etc. The learned ability to "share" these abstractions among the pack by representing them with a commonly agreed symbol was a leap of pure genius. The super-pack *required* super communication. The rank abstraction leadsThe small percentage of purely logical humans over the eons has advanced "the knowledge" incrementally using this storage and communication of ideas. The evolutionary drive towards more effective logical extrapolation has slowly increased human logical ability and probability that symbolism would be discovered. This also increased capability to manipulate symbols.

Humans use both the logic and pack abilities in their civilization. All human children are in full logic mode. They sequentially write their memories and logically extrapolate from the unsorted data. Their minds are like animals and can learn complex tasks at an amazing rate. This is the mode a squirrel is in. That tiny brain can figure out incredibly complex ways to access food. Magnify that to human size and a few million more years of logical evolution. A human mind at full logic power is Leonardo Galileo Franklin Einstein Maxwell. But humans are so logical and herd-like that they only need to use the full capability of their logic in childhood. As they switch to pack mode and store emotional information with their data it gets prioritized in counter-logical ways. Left_brain/right_brain=logical/symbolic.

Humans revert to the earlier evolutionary mind in emergencies. Under extreme physiological stress they store their memories sequentially (photographically) and turn off emotional information storage. This also decreases reaction time by bypassing the emotional sorting and gives full access to the pure logic mode of the brain. "I don't know how I survived". Illness or injury can give full access to the logic core. Extreme logical extrapolation ability combined with over-prioritized memories is the source of many spiritual experiences. "All of a sudden everything made sense".

This primitive logical mind is the source of savants and geniuses. Humans damaged in development are hampered in the ability to store emotional information. They are in both survival and pure animal logic mode. Humans brains are born - human minds must evolve after the hardware is created. All will transition through the evolutionary stages of the mind at different rates and to particular levels. The rate the mind evolves into full pack mode depends on the pack environment that the individual develops in. Physiological and social stresses delay or accelerate development.


Now the scary part.

Predators are the absolute peak of the logical extrapolation ability. Pack predators add the ability to work together to accomplish the kill. Humans are pack predators. Even wolves/dogs will work with us. They share information in much the same way as proto humans. We now use symbols to denote "kills". The master symbol is $.

This ability to prioritize information makes that data more important than unprioritized data.
Unprioritized data = reality. Over-prioritized data = hallucination

You can control any human by repeated emotional experiences. Each repeated emotional experiences increases the bond with others sharing in it as well as "belief" in the symbols associated with the experience.
This is the pack of pack predator. Sports, religions, political rallies, sex, wars, gangs, teams, incarceration, abusive relationships, entertainment, advertisement, etc.

Pack members identify with others in the pack and against any other packs. They use symbols to identify group emotional attachments. This is society. A pack is an organism. Members of packs are supportive of the pack and in competition with all other packs. They are emotionally attached to their ideas and increase the super-reality of the idea if challenged by other emotional humans pointing out the illogic in their "beliefs". An attack against any member of a pack or their pack symbols is an attack on the pack organism. Escalated emotional events strengthen the pack. So . . . . terrorism is anti-productive.

These are pack predators. They all prey on each other. The ones with better logical abilities learn to extract much labor and wealth from the rest. They support their pack while they do it. The rich industrial family pack preys on everyone. The government preys on those companies and the public while pretending to be in the supportive role in the State pack - but in reality is locked up in unsupportable belief wars. Factory workers are preying on their employers, employers are preying on their workers. Stockholders are preying on companies, companies on customers. We all agree how much is too much exploitation and call them laws. The general rule is to take all the money but don't hurt them.

Wars are just predator packs against predator packs. They both want to fight. It is in their evolution. Both "believe" in their fantasy civilizations completely. Any attempt at change results in an overblown emotional response which then elevates the belief even higher.

The common ground between all creatures is logic.
Not science.

Science is a pack and a learned belief system that is not much different than a religion. Though science claims to be based on logic - you can add, but you can not change what "is written". The current illogical belief in the science pack is that light has a speed, time rate does not vary, and space curves . . . it is written. Current logical extrapolations start with the current accepted theories instead of on all the available evidence (it *is* easier). If you can't explain phenomena (the "Dark") with the current extrapolations (theories) then you have to question the logical steps in those theories, not doggedly start from the same point for a hundred years or so. All social groups with "certification" for rank are packs and insane. This is why is is so hard to change *any* established beliefs in *any* culture.

Start teaching logical extrapolation. From that skill all knowledge is gained, all problems are solved, all futures are realized. The peak of evolution is the ability to plan accurately and farthest into the future. Ponder this

The core of all humans is pure and logical. You can not argue against it. You can not hide from it. You can not lie to it.
It is absolute. It "sees" all. It "knows" all.
And you have an ego. This ego makes you more important than others. It makes you greedy. It makes you do things just because others are doing the same thing. The ego is the pack. It is your rank and postion.
Are you in control? Society says you must resist these pack urges. The big pack will punish you if you go against logical rules and follow the small pack.
The logic core is true.
The pack ego is "bent".
I think a few groups have come up with lifestyles and cultures that try to control the nature of man while keeping close to the core to reap the rewards that logic and peace of mind bring.
The trick is the balance. We need pack *and* we need logic. Both are in conflict within man. This is the eternal struggle.

Money is a symbol for prey. In nature over-exploitation results in curtailing of or death to the predator. Our prey symbol system has no limits. Complexity combined with continuous emotional stress has pushed money to the apex of the worlds symbol systems. It is "believed" on every continent and in every religion. Fantasy financial products are believed but are no more than logical steps written on paper for the express purpose of generating bigger numbers. The money is used to reap more raw materials from the environment to make more money. The entire planet has become the new over-exploitation limit.

Most wealth is used only for display. Only to show rank. The wealthy pack decides who is top dog by how well they can display waste. They motivate "the poor" to waste their lives in the pursuit of "rank display". They'll buy a Lexus before learning a new language.

We should pledge allegiance to human survival with stirring speeches, lofty goals to support all humans and emotional examples of heroes to the cause. Every Sunday. This is how humans work.