Caveman Brain
Old hardware running new stakes.
“Tribe, threat, food, status. Repeat.”
This is the brain that evolved when the worst-case scenario was a saber-toothed tiger. It runs the same circuitry today, except now the tiger is a notification, a stranger online, a number in a bank account. The reaction is the same — fight, flight, tribe — and it's mostly wrong.
The Caveman isn't dumb. It's fast. That speed was useful when fast meant alive. Now it just means you committed to a position before you knew you had one. Most of what gets called "outrage culture" or "identity politics" is just a few billion cavemen running their factory settings.
You can't get rid of the Caveman — you evolved to need it for the 0.1% of situations where speed actually matters. But you can build a delay system (the Meta-Thinker) that catches its first reaction before it ships.
