RE: Evolution favours altruism
August 2, 2013 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2013 at 1:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I think ultruism vs selfishness is a false, and crude dichotomy resulting from particular cognative mechanisms evolved in parallel with ape social behavior.
At a fundamental level, thete nature there is no such thing as selfish or ultruistic, only behavior patterns which so happen to have enhanced the survival of a species down through the particular trajectory of environmental and social pressures which that particular species had been exposed to.
What we see as selfish, or ultruistic, may be survival enhancing under one set of conditions, and fatal under another.
A revolution every few hundred years to even the odds is therefore not always a bad thing.
At a fundamental level, thete nature there is no such thing as selfish or ultruistic, only behavior patterns which so happen to have enhanced the survival of a species down through the particular trajectory of environmental and social pressures which that particular species had been exposed to.
What we see as selfish, or ultruistic, may be survival enhancing under one set of conditions, and fatal under another.
(August 2, 2013 at 1:20 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Tell that to the 1%
A revolution every few hundred years to even the odds is therefore not always a bad thing.
