Steve writes:
< There may be psychochemical dynamical systems inside her body involved
in maintaining "sight of you" and there likely *were* complex feedback
loops in the intentional breeding of her ancestors as well as the
natural selection environments that lead her first ancestor (whatever
that is) to be chosen as "good stock to start a herding breed from". >
I thought we were talking about the cause of chanting and this sort of thing.
I claim it is tendency to seek out similar people and that the affinity has
essentially been bred-into some populations.
It isn't a conscious decision or something that needs short-horizon dynamics.
It just works out that they show up with people of the same color, economic,
or religious background and start chanting about people that are not like them.
Explainable with near-zero intelligence agents. The "near" part being that
it takes some negotiation to make up the similarity function, if ready-made
ones like ethnicity are not evident.
Marcus
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