[extropy-chat] Death Toll

[Jef Allbright]

Jeff Davis wrote:

>If survival is the goal, then you get there by
>rational behavior.  If multiple individuals with
>similar values act in concert, their survival ***as a
>group*** may be enhanced, but the similarity to
>tribalism is merely coincidental.   
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Jeff makes a good point about rationality, but it is an ideal that 
doesn't fully map onto the world in which we live.  Do to real 
constraints on contextual knowledge and processing time, instinctive 
behavior can be much more survival enhancing than a so-called rational 
approach.  I think we are near the crossover point, however, beyond 
which the survival of humans and their organizations will most certainly 
depend on expanded contextual awareness and associated processing.

- Jef
http://www.jefallbright.net