The Network of Competitive Instincts Fuels Hostility

Invisible forces operating along the evolutionary pathway of system performance can activate the Network of Competitive Instincts within the Subconscious Component. This activation may initiate an open-loop cycle involving the Survival and Fear Instincts, which can interact with the Network of Competitive Domains and gradually develop into closed-loop conditions. As these interacting forces intensify, the system may continually interpret external competition as a threat that requires biased algorithmic codes in system platforms and defensive or corrective actions in the physical world.

 

The Survival Instinct can consequently modify the algorithmic codes underlying the decision-making framework, prioritizing immediate protection, resource preservation, and competitive advantage. Although these adjustments may initially help maintain stability and harmony in the physical and social environment, they can also lead to unintended consequences when decisions are dominated by fear, rivalry, suspicion, or perceived threats. Under such conditions, senseless, disproportionate, or irrational behavior toward opponents may emerge and become incorporated into subsequent decision-making patterns, which arise from an interplay between fast, subconscious reactions and slow, deliberative reasoning that actively weighs trade-offs, checks rules, and justifies choices.

 

Deceptive strategies, aggressive responses, and unjust actions can further reinforce these patterns. When adversaries perceive such behavior as a threat, they may activate their own Survival and Fear Instincts and respond with comparable defensive or competitive mechanisms. Each response can then become a new stimulus for the opposing system, creating a recursive feedback process in which hostility reproduces itself in the environmental contexts.

 

Over time, these interactions may transform temporary competitive tensions into persistent Closed-loop cycles. The Network of Competitive Instincts and aggressive Ego structure can thereby sustain distrust, revenge, manipulation, and escalating opposition, mutual retaliatory responses, even when the source of conflict has diminished. Consequently, behaviors initially adopted for short-term survival or competitive advantage may become embedded within the system's decision-making framework, making cooperation increasingly difficult and allowing hostility to perpetuate across successive interactions. Finally, it reduces harmonious balance in the Conscious Component and in the communities.