Chapter 229: Unexpected but Reasonable

However, Yao Yan soon discovered a problem.

"Stages"

The growth and development of the dragons showed obvious stages.

Unfortunately, these "stages" correspond to the first, second and third stages of development.

Are there such obvious stage differences in gene expression and biological growth?

It shouldn't be.

Even various metamorphosis organisms represented by insects are not so clearly divided.

There is nothing that Yao Yan made himself, but he did not realize the problem in this regard.

On the contrary, in order to increase the growth rate and growth benefits in the early stage, Yao Yan tried to destroy the growth progress of the gene when setting the gene template, so that the growth curve was forward.

Especially in the secondary development across stages, Yao Yan's goal is to completely destroy this interval.

However, when his reshaped dragon body completed the first development and was ready to enter the second development stage, he found that the interval that should have been destroyed had reappeared.

The growth curve that should have been very gentle in the early stage of the first two stages has also become a structure in which the first half of each stage is simple, and the second half, especially when crossing the interval, is difficult.

However, Yao Yan soon found the reason.

After all, this is a world condensed by the human spirit.

In his works during his lifetime, there are too many such operations.

Hierarchy.

Or.

Recalling the news he got from Lao Jia about the assimilation of this world by the assimilated people and their conceptual expressions, Yao Yan couldn't help but repeat in a low voice:

"Class, standard."

Human judgment standards are vague, and "concepts" and other mental structural integrations are themselves defined by humans.

"Definition" is an indispensable part of the underlying structure of human thinking, memory, and experience.

And humans cannot interconnect their minds and pass on their meanings to the next person without any omissions.

Humans will misread, misunderstand, and have various situations that affect communication.

Standards appeared "to solve this problem"?

No, standards did not appear to solve this problem, but humans have tried various methods, but defining standards is "one of the most successful methods" and then survived.

People always like to purpose the results. What happened in society and what impact it had on themselves, influenced by the thinking mechanism created by the physiological mechanism of self-protection, humans will always unconsciously restate this impact with themselves as the center.

I am hurt.

The most extreme and superficial one is to be re-stated as "in order to hurt me" and "in order to hurt me".

This mentality is generally called "self-centeredness".

In the primitive tribal period, sub-adult individuals would be expelled from the group and the inertia of acting alone was retained in human genes.

This situation will be particularly obvious in the physiological stage of modern humans called "adolescence" and "puberty".

The elimination mechanism of genes in human society has been disconnected from nature, and the law that those who are not adapted to human society will be eliminated by nature is no longer applicable in human society.

After the emergence of large social organizational structures such as family states, the phenomenon that humans will be retained regardless of their genetic quality has caused problems with human genes.

Even some people who instinctively reject reproduction and reject reproduction with the opposite sex will be retained due to various circumstances and continue to continue in the human gene pool.

Yao Yan knew this instinctive defect, and his own thinking structure could not get rid of the thinking inertia brought by this thinking structure, but he would pay attention to it.

He would pay attention to it naturally.

But he was more concerned about the genes retained in the gene pool, because of the competition for limited resources and the resource possession behavior of animals.

Based on these guarantees of survival, the genes that can make life obtain advantages and disadvantages in the process of reproduction are stubbornly present in the human gene pool.

Even if there were indeed some individuals in his lifetime who did not compete with other individuals for resources, and even had a high tendency to devote altruism, and even did not hesitate to harm themselves to perform altruistic behaviors, they could survive in society.

However, even for them, these genes with altruistic tendencies are often based on the fact that a certain degree of altruistic behavior can improve their own survival rate, resource possession rate, courtship success rate, etc. in the group, so that they can exist and remain.

The reason for gene retention is not good or bad.

But "effective or not".

Humans like to label things they like and judge whether they are good or bad.

Even when facing those individuals with extremely strong altruistic behaviors, there will be a situation of rejecting these individuals.

Reason?

Because of jealousy? Because other individuals pay attention to and praise these altruists, which may be called jealousy.

Because of possessiveness, because these altruists give too little or nothing to themselves.

Because of threats, if the behavior of these altruists spreads, they will consume their own resources if they need to imitate.

Because of empathy.

There are many reasons.

It is naive to think that good people will not attract hatred.

But when you put all these together and try to find common ground, you will find that the words "resources", "status" and "identification" often appear more than other words.

The instinct of animals, which arises from the possession of resources, has formed a clear concept of "status" among social animals.

People will instinctively pursue high status - because high status corresponds to more resources.

Even if humans have rationality, they are just re-judging the cost-effectiveness based on experience.

The core demand is still the possession of resources, which is an extension of the instinct of self-protection.

In the development of human society, the emergence of status classes is particularly clear.

And status classes are also firmly engraved in people's concepts.

In the era in which he lived, most of the hierarchical standards based on status classes frequently appeared in various creative works.

Divide into levels, divide into stages, divide into levels

These standards and levels can, to a certain extent, subdivide the things that people need to understand, making them easier to understand, but at the same time, the instinct to pursue resource possession, which is linked to these standards and these divisions, will make their empathy feel pleasure when the possession of a biological resource that they identify with increases.

Simply put, when they "put themselves into" the goal, they will get pleasure from the goal of obtaining more resources and more status, and be stimulated by the physiological reward mechanism, which makes them pursue this.

And as time goes by, people will gradually get used to "standards" and "stages".

Things should have standards, and things should have stages.

This is an inherent cognition in the human brain that cannot be removed.

Yao Yan was indifferent.

This is the so-called "unexpected but reasonable"