CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hobo, Mnemonic, Tribalism
14 Dec 2016
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They evolved to help us take care of the other people in our groups. But not so much people outside our groups: groups of humans vs. other groups of humans. Self-interest: i care about myself and my family: all animals have instincts for gene-preservation (with exceptions, more likely to lend money to your own family than strangers. Friendship: i care for historical cooperation partners: shared with chimps, sharing food used to be a life and death matter for us. Tribalism: i care about us, but not them. I care about all people or creatures that can have positive or negative experiences: the tragedy of commonsense morality, requires abstract reasoning and values. In general, evolved and well-learned behaviours work faster than deliberate ones: when you force people to play a prisoner"s dilemma game quickly, they are more likely to cooperate. Trolley problem: a train is about to run over 5 people.
