Self-blindness in humans as prerequisite for the evolution of advanced intelligence

For the time being one can refer to the short paragraph on Self Blindness and Social-role Blindness.

This page is under construction.

The line of argumentation will follow among other things the abstract of the "good and bad" blindfold as a safeguard to prevent ...................

It is about preventing short cuts between proximal urges in our behaviour and the desired outcomes. Such short cuts would destroy the functional links between the proximal organization of our behaviour with all the emotional urges implied, and the ultimate evolutionary goals of such behaviours. Whereas very satisfactory to the individuals in question, such short cuts would impair their participation in procreation, which in turn would make the short cut capacity to go extinct again. Therefore intelligence is in principle self defeating in evolution if it would rise above a certain level.

In studying the evolutionary processes on planet earth it appears that ordinarily intelligence indeed is stopped at a certain level. In humans it could only rise above that level after a specific provision had been built into our behavioural system, making sure that such high intelligence only could be applied to any type of problems in life as long as it would not be applied to the bearer's own behaviour. This can be called "Self-blindness".