Thx for your thoughts. I think our biases control our interactions with each other and with the world to a larger extent than most of us are aware.
I agree - "than most of us are aware" is the key phrase. Most of the time, we don't even know what those biases are, because we tend to think we are reasonably self-aware. (I just discovered that underlying certain of my behaviours was a lack of trust. Should I have been more trusting? I don't know -- but I should have been aware that lack of trust was the issue and looked down that rabbit hole for answers instead of trying to control certain outcomes.)
Exactly. It is difficult--perhaps impossible--to find a solution when we don't know the nature of the problem (or if one even exists). (Coincidentally, your example is illustrative of my point of view, however, in that I believe that psychology can't be explained in purely biological terms.)