Seems it always has been natural selective contraints. The metric of IQ and EQ may be sub metrics or symptoms of the Adaptability Quotient. The environment dictates the contraints and we evolve as the strategies to challenge them. Then the curse of "knowledge" creates the new contraints through us competing against all the versions of ourselves that chose different strategies. This creates the red queen dynamic. IQ and EQ seem to be partly based on abstraction ability (Flynn effect shows up) and meta-awareness seems to enhance our adaptability quotient significantly through this method of opening up more simulated action space (expansion of the perceptual game board).
Sometimes the embedded versions of life near the bottom of the stack of life, like mycelium, hold the most leverage over all other life as a symbiotic strategy. They support the platform that all other life relies on. If we attack mycelium, we attack ourselves. The best strategy might simply be to focus on the most positive sum outcome for all versions of ourselves while also finding local coherence in the most efficient ways. Strategically become a symbiote with the platforms like Bitcoin, that support coherence.
It would seem that meta-awareness creates this ability to recursively exit the conceptual mind into a continuous observer state where the body self regulates into local coherence. That could be the stabilizing local factor that emerges into broader coherence. Enjoy the simple things in life while being as honest as possible with yourself and others so that it ripples outwards.