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Cancer Cells Become Self-Aware to Change Their Behavior
Cancer cell behavior is actually following rational self-interest defined by the game theoretics of if I stop being a cancer cell the body's still going to die right because I can't stop everybody else from doing it. If we don't cut the trees down but we don't have some rule of law that makes sure nobody does then all it means is the other tribe that's in competition with us cuts all the trees down and they'll use that economic advantage against us in the next tribal warfare and we're screwed. We've never solved anything that matters ecologically or socially like there are some times where people out of concern for the commons have went against some profit stream, he says.