MORAL SPATIAL REASONING I might have been wrong about something interesting. For

MORAL SPATIAL REASONING

I might have been wrong about something interesting.

For years I have understood that Europeans have superior spatial reasoning especially in the perception of the locations of others in real time. Europeans are followed by east Asians.

But I assumed that this was a product of military or hunting selection.

It didn’t occur to me that it is the product of morality: understanding of the intentions of others, and that hunting and fighting superiority, particularly in Europe and Asia evolved as extensions of the moral instinct.

So does it mean that our concept of time preference should be restated in moral terms?

We know that time preference, impulsivity and morality are correlated with social class. And that intelligence is also.

We know that Europeans and east Asians are the least impulsive people. Asians less impulsive than Europeans.

We know that only east Asians and europeans were able to create advanced societies and that only Europeans were able to break familial bonds.

But are these all simply effects of greater sensitivity to and priority given to, the detection of intentions for the purpose of seizing opportunities to cooperate : morality?