Comment by hackyhacky
4 days ago
What you say is true and fairly obvious, but the interesting mystery is the mechanism of that dependency, not its evolutionary advantage.
Knowing the mechanism opens the door to medical interventions. Analogously, no one is confused as to why the human body stores fat and gets hungry, but knowing the mechanism allows weight-loss treatment like Ozempic.
the interesting mystery is the mechanism of that dependency, not its evolutionary advantage.
Nah, I'd say the evolutionary advantage is the more interesting mystery. The mechanism is just an implementation detail, after all.
And by the way, if we tamper with something without understanding its purpose we risk messing something up.