Once cooperation stabilizes, prediction signals and self-awareness accrue

Evidence

Once evolutionary stability of cooperative behaviour was achieved by one or more of the Darwinian processes I have discussed, features that maintained and enhanced the coherence of the highly functional cooperative behaviour would then have tended to evolve. Signals that predicted what one individual was about to do and mechanisms for responding appropriately to them, would have become mutually beneficial. Furthermore, the maintenance of social systems that promoted quick interpretation of the actions of familiar individuals would have become important. Finally, when the quality or quantity of cooperation depended on social conditions, increasing sensitivity and self-awareness would have become advantageous. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 461

Categorization

• XREF: Signals that predict another’s actions and systems for quick interpretation are the observable constraints underlying trust in the reader’s Luhmann/Hardin synthesis. — connects to: Collective intelligence depends on material infrastructure beyond human minds — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 554