Understanding Complexity and the Ability to Collaborate

In an un-straction population of entities competing with each other, you know, in an evolutionary dynamic, then cooperators don't succeed. There's a cooperation barrier and this is despite the fact that entities cooperating together always have the potential to out compete isolated individuals. And it's because coordination and cooperation enables division of labour, specialisation and so on. Each individual doesn't have to be a jack of all trades any longer. You can specialise and coordinate with others to form a whole. So you have this, so cooperation is very difficult to evolve. This applies at every level, including the human level which we're most familiar with.