Wow! - that is quite the peak oil reference hub!

To me, these cognitive concepts are interesting and relevant on their own, but to have a unifying principle of why they exist is so much more holistic and informative. It takes a lot of reading and/or observing animals, etc. to get the 'aha' of evolutionary biology. But it's a very powerful (and correct) lens with which to view the world. In the end (and I don't mean that literally), we have to know where we came from to know where we are going..

Thank you.
And welcome to TOD....

Nate, beliefs also have to do with the dominant social relations of production and reproduction we are embedded within, have internalized and, though no longer in our best interests, attempt to - and through various means have been and are told and trained to - perpetuate.
Juan de la O