Both relative mental imbalance and mental manipulation by environmental contingencies happen easily in humans because the prefrontal lobes are abnormally large compared to the rest of the brain. Human minds are exceptionally adaptable because they are precariously balanced.

In step with this, mainstream mythology is inordinately absurd. Well-adapted minds in a psychotic process are psychotic. Meaning is not human-based. It is functionally memetics-machine* directed. What psychotic-normalized minds describe as “mental illness” is the natural deselection of minds either not abnormal in the right way, or underdeveloped by reflexively refusing to become mainstream psychotic.

*Memetics-machine:

Ritual disciplines of meaning-making, like science, religion and the humanities, are part of a new code replacing (and destroying) genetics as the code propagating the apex dynamic material complexity of the universe.

“Symbolic reference is not an intrinsic quality. The source of symbolic reference is not in the brain at all. This is why it is pointless to look for the basis for symbolic consciousness in a lower-level essence that is only associated with brains, or to invoke special physical laws that undermine the deterministic character of neural mechanisms in order to explain intentional consciousness. Symbolic reference does not derive from anything particularly special about the brain, but from a special sort of relationship that can be constructed by it.” … p.447 “The Symbolic Species” – Terrence W. Deacon