Since humans evolution was largely geared towards increased intelligence for survival instead of physical aptitude it could be the case that those who were able to resolve conflicts resulting from other people with different or incompatible thought processes or logic would be better fit to solve other problems outside their familiarity. We may have evolved to artificially cause societal problems as a means of making more difficult problems requiring non-physical solutions than the rest of the natural world would otherwise be able to provide. This could be why we have relatively complicated emotions compared to other animals and why some people who are conventionally intelligent and very skilled in their field can have absolutely stupid or fringe beliefs contradicted by evidence.
Hypothetically if this is right and we take it to the extreme, the longer we survive as a species the more frequent and more severe problems will occur that could cause our extinction with ever-increasingly difficult solutions to resolve them. Also there would be more varied extremist beliefs that would be less changeable or alterable by counter evidence. This process of natural selection would only work until it doesn't and we likely end up crippling society beyond function or cause our own extinction.
Submitted May 17, 2022 at 01:47AM by Wood_Rogue https://ift.tt/OHbVgfo