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Mathematics of Trust
The consequences of this shift are visible not only in scripture but in survival
itself. Anthropologists note that without symbolic contracts, human groups
cannot exceed ~150 stable relationships — Dunbar’s Number. Beyond this,
trust collapses.
But with symbols — marks, rituals, words — groups scale into thousands.
Cooperation becomes exponential. The probability of group survival can be
modeled simply:
p = the probability that one person cooperates.
n = the number of people in the group.
P
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survival(n) = the probability that at least one person cooperates, so the
group survives.
