Re: Psych/Philo: Brains want to cooperate

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 02:36:39 MDT


"Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather
than as fitness-maximizers."
        -- John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, The Adapted Mind, p. 54

If the altruism adaptation originally evolved because it contributed to
fitness, that does not mean that altruism is a *cognitive* subgoal of
reproductive fitness in the human organism.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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