Human Evolution as a Function of the Efficient Transfer of Energy:
In the last book, I talked about how human behavior is well enough understood that it can be used as a theoretical system of mathematics. My theoretical system of mathematics was derived from the Theory of Evolutionary Relativity. The Theory of Evolutionary Relativity was the basis of the entire first volume of this book.
I discovered the Systems Theory of Human Evolutionary Behavior and Theory of Evolutionary Relativity by combining the contents of two books about science with some basic principles of theatre. One rule of theatre says that no one ever does anything for no reason. Another says that people always expend their energy in whatever way seems to give them the best chances of succeeding at their goals.
In Why God Won’t Go Away, Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. Eugene D’Aquili show how the five fundamental components of evolutionary psychology—the instincts to survive and reproduce, and the abilities to imagine, remember, and communicate—created every aspect of religion. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Dr. Jared Diamond uses the energy efficiency of food production to tell the agricultural history of the world.
Soon after I read Guns, Germs, and Steel, I figured out how to tell the entire history of human behavior in terms of energy efficiency. In order to do that, I had to establish what exactly the energy that was being used efficiently was acting upon. With that, I discovered the first principle of evolutionary psychology independently. I called it spiritual logic, and my first principle was: “People always act to give themselves the most favorable ratio of perceivable benefit to effort required.” Separately, I had defined all benefits as relating in one way or another to survival or reproduction. The official first principle of evolutionary psychology says: “All human behavior is the product of the attempt by the individual to preserve the survival of his or her DNA by the most effective means perceivable to him or her.”
I was working at my job when I figured this out. I think it was about 11:00 on a Wednesday morning. I know it was early February of 2004. Someone had a radio on, playing a commercial radio station. I’d been working at that job for a few weeks, being assaulted by radio commercials for 40 hours a week. That morning, I was sanding some theatre scenery with an orbital sander, which isn’t very interesting work. Then yet another commercial came on for someone’s brand-new super-duper pickup truck that was supposed to change the way people think about pickup trucks… or whatever. So I got to racking my brains, trying to figure out: Everyone thinks radio commercials are so stupid, what effect could they possibly have on people’s brains that would make them profitable to put on the radio?
Then the Systems Theory of Human Evolutionary Behavior and Theory of Evolutionary Relativity hit me, within seconds of each other. (Or so it seems to me now—it might’ve been as much as two minutes.) I just about dropped the sander and ran home to start writing them down.
It was soon after that I realized the hole in Dr. Diamond’s logic that all cultures are the product of evolutionarily equal humans making the best use of their resources. That literal statement is true, but the wording is ambiguous. The most obvious way to interpret it can’t possibly be true, because that would require all cultures to be the product of evolutionarily equal humans making the best use of their available resources and nothing else. So how would people from a less materially wealthy culture make up the difference to make themselves feel equally satisfied with their lives? That was obvious: By developing energy-efficient shortcuts to making themselves feel satisfied with their lives—or by retaining those energy efficient shortcuts while people of more materially wealthy groups forgot them. Thus I discovered my amc = v equation, which showed that cultural values are a critical part of the human biological economy. That showed that the sharing and learning of other people’s cultural values gave us the opportunity for essentially free economic development. It also showed why conquered people whose cultures have been destroyed and who still have less material wealth than their oppressors have such a hard time getting back on their feet and participating in their oppressors’ economies.
Since Dr. Newberg and Dr. D’Aquili showed how the five fundamental units of evolutionary psychology had created every aspect of religion, Dr. Diamond had used energy efficiency to tell the history of the world, and I’d figured out how to connect energy efficiency to the five fundamental units of evolutionary psychology, I could write a scientific book about the entire history of the world, and use science to replicate the emotional impact of religion to make it memorable.
Like I said, I assumed all this was so obvious that official scientists must’ve thought of it already.