
Why do we cooperate and help others - Game theory & altruism | with Erez Yoeli
Game Changer - the game theory podcast
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Do You Have Egoistic Motives?
In the animal kingdom, you have animals like cleaner fish who co operate. But i don't know that we really ascribe motives to them in the same way that one does to humans anyhow. There 's this distinction between some ultimate cause of what's going on, which obviously there is some individual love of benefit, and the proximate thoughts that are in their headsme often use this ternology, ultimate and aproximate to distinguish behween the to and thanks. Sure wil get to o so i understand that basically, in this repeated situation, my motives are still very egoistic in that sense,. regarding my pay off.
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