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Power Projection and Human Imagination | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 6 (WiM219)
The "What is Money?" Show
Evolutionary Benefits of Mistaking Things That Don't Exist as Physically Real Things
There are major evolutionary benefits to mistaking things that don't exist as physically real. In paleoit, paleolithic world, it's helpful. But as society starts building these complex, abstract constructs, and mistaken things are physically real, whand they aren't, they make really stupid decisions. The reason why is because mammals communicate the same way. We can tell when an animal is happy or not by by virtue of their eyes. And we commun so it works both ways. That's why it's ta kind of efed up. Like we communicate happiness the same way we, what's the term called? No, susception, detection of pain.
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