I now think that we are NOT a tribal species. We are a state building species, while tribes are reputation and group based singletons. Homo Neanderthaliensis was tribal, and we obliterated them. The evolution of the soul was part of this.
I suspect that any universe that produces regular patterns must have a ground truth. Embedded observers cannot recognize whether their models match the groundtruth, but they may be able to map the (infinite) space of theories that can explain the observations.
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The anthropologist's dilemma applies equally to the universe in which the observers serve as agents of the cosmos itself.
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Fortunately a cosmos with agency is a figment of the imagination of its agents.
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