Human reasoning is evolving at a vastly swifter rate than the biological evolution of human brains. In fact, it appears that the evolution of reasoning has totally outstripped that of the brain to the extent that there is now a divide between what reasoning should ideally be against that of base animal urges.
Here, one needs only think about how even "logical" science is steeped in irrationality. It is logical to presume that there has been little benefit to being truly rational, and selection pressure has been strongly against the slowness of rationality in favour of the visceral speed of irrational responses.
However, times have changed. The Darwinistic selection pressure against rationality has shifted to irrationality. Now, it is overly irrational people who are less likely to be successful. I wonder how long it will be before evolution takes its course and breeds a bunch of rather more rational humans...
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