I'm Not a Cooperative, Just Use This Language, but I Know You Do Too

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i would say that this psychological altruism is as natural a feeling to us as something like hunger, or some other physiologicaler emotion. I'm not doing it because of some potential punishment or reward in the next life. I'm doing it because i care. And that, to me, that's true morality. You now, two be and cosmetes made this argument about friends. Part of the thing about being a friend is you do things when you really feel like you care about them. That's the basis of friendship and love. To me, that’s as good as a foundation for moral sentiments,. Moral feelings, moral emotions, as good as s if it came from

Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But given what we know about the mechanisms of evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin? A biologist by training, Nichola Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves. She reveals that the species that exhibit cooperative behavior — teaching, helping, grooming, and self-sacrifice — most similar to our own tend not to be other apes; they are birds, insects, and fish, occupying far more distant branches of the evolutionary tree. By understanding the problems they face, and how they cooperate to solve them, we can glimpse how human cooperation first evolved. And we can also understand what it is about the way we cooperate that has made humans so distinctive and so successful.