...and how the brain figures this out and why it is motivated to do so. There are a lot of simple animals that apparently “try to control” resources or territory. How?
Drives to control resources occur everywhere. And your control of resources is closely related to your dominance in a dominance hierarchy. Which seems to be regulated in many animals by serotonin. See e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01378-2
...and how the brain figures this out and why it is motivated to do so. There are a lot of simple animals that apparently “try to control” resources or territory. How?
Drives to control resources occur everywhere. And your control of resources is closely related to your dominance in a dominance hierarchy. Which seems to be regulated in many animals by serotonin. See e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01378-2