Why use divination? Why is it such a great cultural evolution success story? Article with an economic/ strategic model, with comments by various smart people, finally out at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/706879 … . Proofs at http://pascalboyer.net/articles/2020-Boyer-Why-Divination.pdf …
Or.. Occam-style, humans are just trapped in Theory of Mind programming, as we copied vertebrate prey-predator agency detection and we're trapped in it..https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-history-gets-things-wrong …