Evolution shapes trust as an aspect of awareness

Evidence

Patrick Bateson, discusses the general mechanisms of evolution which can realize stable cooperative equilibria among animals without postulating the need for trust; at the same time, Bateson traces an evolutionary path through which trust may have emerged as an aspect of awareness and an essential element of human cooperation. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 75

Categorization

• XREF: If trust evolved as an aspect of awareness, Saramago’s epidemic that removes visual awareness is an attack on the very substrate trust evolved upon.