[barelysapient]

Yes and its exactly like this for our slightly less sapient animal siblings. "I'm hungry. You look like food.

"I don't want to be food. I'm running away".

The outcome is boolean. And an order emerges in form of a balance between prey and predator.

I've always wondered if the same pattern isn't also true about human societies. Yielding a spectrum: Aggressive and passive. Powerful and weak. Representative and authoritarian.