Have you ever wondered why, despite unparalleled cognitive capabilities, humans lingered in a near-total primordial state of nature for most of their existence? And why, in their roughly 300,000 years on Earth, did Homo sapiens only recently learn to challenge their fixated existence - with The Epic of Gilgamesh in Mesopotamia (circa 2100–1200 BCE) and Greek contributions (circa 600 BCE)?

Though the mind in Locke's tabula rasa state might have held open multiple possibilities - or as philosophers put it, "worlds within and beyond" - the absence of inherent agency or blueprint made humans prone to selective fixation. An unformed cognition rendered them susceptible to becoming locked in dictated fates. While intuition may have helped them stay on course, it often lacked the capacity to lead towards a truly fulfilling life. Notwithstanding the existential anxiety that marked their long existence, the absence of inherent agency largely explains their impressionability.

One might then wonder how........

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