The Error that is Man

[Rodion Romanovich]

That's the point of course! We're adapted to starting to fight when resource shortage occurs, since that is the best thing to do once the competition situation has arisen. The problem is how we keep creating resource shortage situations over and over again - and thus conflict reasons - by the way our society systems work.

In nature, there are more clever ways of ensuring resource shortages don't occur or come so suddenly. Or that conflicts between millions of people are built up over decades, centuries or even millennia. We are extremely bad at planning ahead, probably because our instincts are adapted for the type of planning ahead that is needed in pre-civlization society, and rational reasoning abilities aren't very good for planning in complex, large systems over a longer scope of time. Do you agree with me about the following core premise in my reasoning:
- human rational thought abilities are excellent and accurate when it comes to dealing with small, isolated models with very few factors to take into account
- a neural network gone through evolutionary improvement over millions of years to work well in a particular, nearly static (but not entirely static) environment E is better suited for long-term planning in an environment that isn't too much different from E, than a rational reasoning capability (that is unable to take more than 10 factors at most into account at the same time) can ever be.

If you agree with this statement, it's hopefully clear to you how the rest of my statements follow from it.