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To Cooperate or not to coooperate. Regional Academy for Democracy , 30.6.2013. Understanding cooperation?. Who we are? Why we behave the way we do ? How to be more efficient in our cooperative efforts?. (EVOLUTION OF) COOPERATION. (EVOLUTION OF) COOPERATION. (EVOLUTION OF) COOPERATION.
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To Cooperate or not to coooperate Regional Academy for Democracy, 30.6.2013
Understanding cooperation? • Who we are? • Why we behave the way we do? • How to be more efficient in our cooperative efforts?
(EVOLUTION OF) COOPERATION • A cooperator is someone who pays a cost, for another individual to receive a benefit
(EVOLUTION OF) COOPERATION • Cooperation is the process by which the components of a system work together to achieve the global properties. In other words, individual components that appear to be “selfish” and independent work together o create a highly complex, greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts system
(EVOLUTION OF) COOPERATION • ‘‘No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid aside. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a mixture of opportunism andexploitation. . .Scratch an altruist, and watch a hypocrite bleed.’’ • Ghiselin (1974, p. 247)
(EVOLUTION OF) COOPERATION • Mistake? • Heart in a sleeve? • Manipulation? • Moralistic reciprocity? • Cultural group selection?
Fishpond • In this role-playing game, players are asked to fish in a pond. • At the beginning of the game, the pond contains four fish per • player (e.g. 20 players = 80 fish). • The game is played in rounds. In each round, every player may • catch between zero and three fish. • The remaining fish multiply between rounds. • The game lasts for a maximum of ten rounds.
COOPERATION RULES AND GUIDELINES • In summary, success in an evolutionary "game" correlated with the following characteristics: • Be nice: cooperate, never be the first to defect. • Be provocable: return defection for defection, cooperation for cooperation. • Don't be envious:: be fair with your partner • Don't be too clever: or, don't try to be tricky
COOPERATION RULES AND GUIDELINES [T]here must be some coercive power to compel men equally to the performance of theircovenants by the terror of some punishment greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant.... (Hobbes 1651, p. 120
COOPERATION RULES AND GUIDELINES • Credibility enhancing display – credible commitment • “actions speak louder than words?”
COOPERATION RULES AND GUIDELINES • Group identity and Identiy fusion
COOPERATION RULES AND GUIDELINES • Group identity and Identiy fusion
COOPERATION RULES AND GUIDELINES Group identiy and Identiy fusion