I am sure we are (consciousness is) more than mere chemicals. I think it is combined with photons and waves of ~energy~ emanating from magnetic sources such as the sun.

You asked:
Is there a relation between ease of survival and less aggression, because aggression isn't as necessary, and so for the most part it becomes a choice rather than a necessity?

>>>>I think that certain things are not meant to be synergistic....that antagonism has it's place in life for growth~ aggression can be a motivating factor in a persons life. (there must be some reason that the world holds so much of it).

If a person is treated aggressively....much like the descriptor you have used with the trained dog...well fed and sheltered but treated with hostility....they become conditioned just like that dog will. To expect hostility, and know it is coming again.
(And eventually they may leave physorg...heheh)

What we are learning, is that, that conditioning can affect the person for a lifetime if no therapeutic method is found and prescribed to, for change. If the person finds there is less and less hostility, as they find new avenues for relief, and new persons to be around to replace hostile ones, they eventually come to be satisfied that life is no longer hostile...and with that knowledge... one finds change of expectations (and healthy growth) is the outcome.

A person who is conditioned with much hostility is like the dog who is trained to respond, they too are trained to respond...fight or flight, acquiescence or battling with the hostile trainer most often ensues as a response. Only the outcome will usually differ.

Dropping bombs is more a reflection of mass hysteria in my summation! It is sort of like Christians believing in the end of the world instead of the end of an age....mass hysteria, could actually have them bringing about the conclusion they find is inevitable... End of World Scenario...(mass lunacy) and the scale of which they believe in things may cause such things to come to fruition. In the same way that a massive amount of faith in a new age of enlightened logic and beauty, may cause that to come into being.


Are chemicals in synergy intuitive?

Synergy is the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than that predicted by knowing only the separate effects of the individual agents.

Are brain chemicals intuitive. The brain is a cosmic sponge for information...(mine)
and intuiting is one of the capacity of this brain we have. Synergy of those chemicals (acting and reacting) with ones surroundings, create intuition...don't they?