The Modern Mind's Fatal Flaw

Here’s a quick history of minds. First, there were no minds, just stupid stuff undergoing simple local interactions. Then appeared the first proto-mind: Darwinian evolution, via DNA. Under this, the universe made choices according to a purpose: adaption. But such choices were made locally, using little memory, models, or foresight. Even so, organisms changed to better achieve this adaption purpose.This DNA-based selection evolved minds, which did have memory, models, and foresight. This allowed organism actions to match context in far more detail. The purposes that drove such minds were a mishmash of selected proxies. But basic mind plans changed very slowly, as that was managed by DNA evolution.DNA-based evolution eventually gave human minds the ability to copy each others’ behaviors in great detail. Which then allowed culture-based Darwinian evolution, which allowed a much faster evolution of human behaviors. Human minds then rapidly evolved language, tools, norms/law, the sacred,…