get to unconscious instinct, the more deterministic and homogeneous we
get.
As we go "up", the interactions between perceptual layers
and feedback systems in our brains (like memory) produce chaotic outputs
(which simply means too complex for us to find the pattern, not
necessarily random). But we can always trace any decision back to our
two fundamental instincts as living organisms: survival and propagation
in time and space.
Species-level generalizations and predictions
are possible at the base fundamental level (which is abstract), and get
muddy as we approach the concrete level: first community level which is a
bunch of individuals whose aggregate behavior may not coincide with any
individual's, and finally the individual, consciously deciding level
itself, which is in practical terms unique and unpredictable.
That's
why we get wildly diverging social and cultural institutions among
human groups that in reality solve for exactly the same issues
everywhere: how to use natural resources, how to protect genetic
inheritance, how to deal with death, etc.
quotingThis image terrifies me.
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In one glance it explains how even the most intelligent, trustworthy, honest humans are completely deranged.
