While rational individuals are more successful, most people seem to be irrational. This seems to indicate that either rationality is hard to implement on our intricate and highly evolved human brain (unlikely) or that being irrational had adaptive value for multi level selection.
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I think it's more fundamental than that, but it's only an intuition I have. Certainly, sociopaths can exploit society by breaking the rules & turning them to their advantage. But maybe all evolution & adaptation of complex systems works this way? ..
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What if sociopathy is the "natural state", and we the majority have been bred with an innate desire for submission to rules so we can be worker ants for them? And what if that is the way we became deeply cooperative and outperformed the neanderthals?
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