>>16996195 Short life span forces humans to specialize in few things they have innate knowledge of, while deferring the rest of the general knowledge to the collective answer as a means to advance our society. Human society is specialized gate and works on the principle of trust. Thats how we can function as a society.
The only real answer any humans can give is if they have innate personal, physical and experiential knowledge on how a state of something is based upon their own trial and error. The rest of the answers regarding anything else is NPC slop.
Not all of us need to be smart. The smart cow syndrome means a tiny fraction can lead to the herd learning overall. The herd did not invent calculus for example, but now they get taught it at school.
We're a social species. Some rando you never heard of just mindlessly going about his life and following social norms is much more likely to breed than a Diogenes character who smells like shit and jacks off in the street, even if the latter is a more "free thinker."