It could be that we fluctuate between conditions that are best for the thinker, and conditions that are best for the fitness profiteer. It could be there is such a thing as "overthinking" - one misses the boat standing there on the shore pondering the water. And did you ever see curiosity kill a cat?
Anyway, food for thought for sure. Thanks!
Have you had the pleasure of this one? (related musings)
https://steempeak.com/hive-114105/@free-reign/what-exactly-is-my-status
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I would go as far as to say we must fluctuate between these conditions, or at the very least there is always a predominance for thinkers in certain respects/aspects. If thinkers didn't have a place on an evolutionary scale where would we be technologically?
I would love to hear the professors thoughts on that. My guess is there must be a deviation (or middle grounds) where seeing/seeking does not interfere with "fitness payoffs".
If trials were run with different types of people, my guess is there is somewhat of a sliding scale between functional and non-functional. Look at someone like Kim Peek, a mega savant with a memory capacity that was purely mind blowing, but needed to be cared for with things that many of us consider simple basic functions.
I guess some missing info here might be the fact that organisms with a high fitness capability are (in general terms) going to capitalize on the deviations of organisms with low fitness capabilities.
What a thought provoking topic!
I've never personally seen a cat die from its own curiosity. Great point lol. 😂
Thank you for pushing my brain a little further on this concept! 🙂 And for the (related musings) link, I will definitely check that out!
What a society considers "normal" has to be somewhere on your spectrum. I wonder where it is now? It seems to me that thinker:liberal::fitness:conservative. Since liberals control all thought now (or are sure trying to), "normal" is now on the thinker's end. I'm thinking out loud. Forgive me. And thank you.
But allow me one more specific illustration, one that I argue with my overly woke daughter ad nauseum.
Conservatives regard sex as a function of our need to procreate, so are fitness profiteers sexually. Liberals try to elevate sex to a high art, an anything goes kind of over thinking that does nothing to preserve the species. As the overthinking crowd gains dominance, sexual activity increases and for some (conservatives), it is a debased sexual activity. So right now, with anything goes for sexuality, we are in a thinker dominant end of the spectrum. It's funny because I just wrote a freewrite addressing this. I guess I can't get off it.
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