Consider three sources of opinions or habits:(A) Inherit - passed down via DNA or culture, mostly sit in background unquestioned, give assumptions for B,C.(B) Consider - personally think own thoughts, conscious or otherwise. Influenced by what hear, debates join.(C) Specialize - people sit at niches in a structure, learn skills to contribute there, defer to outputs from other niches. Hear, debate near niche. Different types of structures: hierarchies, professions, speculative markets.Before big brains, A dominated most everything. Then with big brains, A dominated stuff that was pretty constant over space and time, while B dominated the rest. And as we learned more kinds of abstractions, we collected more kinds of A that could help with B. While C has long been a thing, the modern world arose mainly due to a huge increase in C, mostly in orgs, markets, and professional networks. As our lives started to change faster and to get more specialized, that also induced a big increase in B to…
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