The mechanism that determines human action is that we do what makes us feel good (at the margin) and refrain from doing what makes us feel bad (at the margin).
“The” mechanism? Citation needed.
a fundamental mechanism of the human brain which was historically correlated with gaining high status is to make us feel good when we have high self-image and feel bad when we have low self-image.
Better, but still unsupported and unclear. What was correlated with what?
“The” mechanism? Citation needed.
Better, but still unsupported and unclear. What was correlated with what?