RE: Psych/Philo: Brains want to cooperate

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 22:11:41 MDT


At 08:59 PM 8/6/02 -0700, Lee wrote:

>In the paper Christ refers to below, this more abstract definition
>is provided: "Altruism means that a system performs actions that increase
>the fitness of another system using the same resources. Selfishness means
>that the system will only perform actions that increase its own fitness.

I've always hoped to read some documentation with Christ's pronouncements.
I'm inclined to regard the usual handwaving `My Heavenly Father informs
me--' stuff as dangerously close to argument from Authority.

Damien Broderick



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