>reserving them for cooperation or something like slavery happens, but it's a rare strategy specific to intelligent animals Exactly, GP thinks this is a higher

>reserving them for cooperation or something like slavery happens, but it's a rare strategy specific to intelligent animals Exactly, GP thinks this is a higher order behavior. I should had clarified, this is lower, more intuitive behavior. It is not, which is why it arises emergently in lower-complexity/class systems. >beat a rival and take their energy even within a species Beating a rival and taking their energy is awesome! And if done with literal, figurative, social, and complex "CLASS", it is literally sexy too! National Geographic is entertaining for many dimensions of reasons. Actually dismembering your sexual-rival and literally consuming their poor caloric conversion is pitifully inefficient compared to making them a sub-ling, whether it be via hen-pecking or innate dominance. It made sense before sexual dimorphication (moreso), but less so now. Ladies like a gentleman, and gentleman's agreements are literally non-colluding emergent behavior to abide by unspoken higher-order rules for one's own explicit conscious self-incentive (lower order, high entropy), but also the implicit collective unconsciousness incentive (higher social order, lower entropy) Both are reslience traits, which only emerge when selected for.