Because empirical science does not believe that the mind exists, it does not believe that the mind can evolve.

Anything that moves in the environment requires a mind, even though empirical science claims that the mind does not exist. The mind is needed in order for animate matter to move safely within the environment. Animate matter requires a picture of external reality so that it can interact safely with that external reality.

The way the mind allows animate matter to move safely within the environment is to produce pictures that are approximate replicas of the environment, and then it encodes those pictures in memory units much as evolutionary characteristics are stored in genes, and those memory units are stored in the physical matter of the brain.

Because the electrical flows which are used to form the picture are unique to each picture formed in the mind, memory units each have unique electrical charges. Thus, when the mind receives a electrical flows from a picture of external reality, the brain's electrical flows adjusts to the electrical flow of the picture, and course through the physical matter of the brain to find similar pictures. If similar pictures are found, they are recalled for comparison with the picture that is formed in the brain, and the animate matter is informed how to move with respect to the external reality that the picture represents. It has been there before.

However, with only one mind, animate matter can form only a single picture. Because animate matter, once it forms the pictures of reality around it, continuously recalls pictures of that reality as it moves through it, as long as reality agrees with recall, the animate matter feels that it is safe. However, if reality changes, the pictures in the mind no longer agree with the pictures coming from reality. With only one mind, and two pictures attempting to be formed, the mind stops working, and the electrical flows that operate it stop operating the mind and enter the physical body of the animate matter, shocking it and thus stopping its movement through reality, warning it of danger, and thus allowing it to figure out what is changed in physical reality so that it can adjust its actions to the changed conditions. If a cliff has appeared where not cliff has been before, then the conflict in the mind stops the mind, the electricity that operates the mind enters the body, the body stops and the animate matter does not step off into infinity.

The difference between humans and animals is that humans can form pictures of reality that do not exist in reality, and while those pictures disagree with reality, a human mind can continue to operate against the pain created by the discrepancy in pictures. Being able to form pictures of reality that don't exist in reality is what leads to the creation of technology, the changing of reality to accommodate the existence of the humans.

However, humans are just as subject to the shock of reality disagreeing with recall, and the ability to recall realities that don't exist, the murder or violation of a loved one, produces a situation in which humans who are wronged in reality to constantly feel the pain of recall not matching reality and are driven to act against those its recall believes wronged it in reality.

Because humans have to act together to improve their conditions within the environment, they have to come together in groups in which pictures that don't exist in reality, pictures painted by the words that humans evolve to describe the pictures they can hold in their minds against actual reality, might well disagree with other's recall, leading to pain in those persons.

As humans are driven to eliminate their pain, they lash out at those that oppose their recall, the pictures of reality they believe to be actual reality and, living in groups, this leads to behavior which has to be controlled if the group is to live together successfully. From the fact that our disagreements of recall with other's recall can lead to conflicts that cause us pain and drive human's to eliminate the pain comes human behavior, why we are driven to do what we do, why we pass religious, moral and civil laws against certain types of behavior, and how the evolution of the mind reflects the evolution of the society those minds come together to form.

A related book, Production Based Prosperity: A Challenge for the Millennial Generation describes how society's evolve.

Human Nature: How the Mind Generates Behavior, delves into to how the mind evolves to produce the behavior that produces the societies that govern that behavior.

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