Getting intensely angry probably involves activating a lot of systems in your body to get ready for fighting—how quickly do those systems calm themselves down? How quickly was it correct for them to switch back to everything-is-peaceful mode when we were more like chimpanzees?
Put another way, it makes a lot more sense that humans stay in states too long if we find out that it’s a lot easier to make the derivative of that state react to evidence than the thing itself.
Getting intensely angry probably involves activating a lot of systems in your body to get ready for fighting—how quickly do those systems calm themselves down? How quickly was it correct for them to switch back to everything-is-peaceful mode when we were more like chimpanzees?
Put another way, it makes a lot more sense that humans stay in states too long if we find out that it’s a lot easier to make the derivative of that state react to evidence than the thing itself.