tons of studies link obesity and poor oral hygiene, but none seem to dive much into a causal model oral bacteria have enormous incentives to produce compounds that stimulate your appetite for high glycemic index carbohydrates do we think they *can't* evolve to mind control you
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i mean, if they're linked to depression they're linked to the inverse of depression, right not that we shouldn't assume prima facie that depression must be an adaptation or we wouldn't do so much of it
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what if depression were a way of generating passivity in the face of forces the individual cannot overcome, thereby enhancing the individual's reproductive fitness by avoiding bringing them into conflict with those forces and helping the tribe by giving it a compliant drone
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yeah, that does seem more of a self-pruning thing me, i just go ahead and embrace group selection like a fucking madman at which point what serves a useful function to humans (as of last patch 40K years ago anyway) might serve really fucking deleterious functions to a human
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group selection is clearly an unrigorous position, practically woo really and it's also the parsimonious explanation for clearly factual matters, such as that we're loaded with firmware that tries to kill us if we perceive ourselves as unimportant to the tribe
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