#biology #evolution #game-theory
# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought #to-digest
# Changelog
```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID file.mtime AS "Last Modified" FROM [[#]]
SORT file.mtime DESC
LIMIT 3
```
# Related
- [[Altruism]]
- [[Egoism is altruism]]
- [[Genetic cooperation]]
# TODO
> [!TODO] TODO
# Selfish gene
[[Genome|Gene]]s optimise us to spread the gene pool to the next generation, each genes competing against each other.
So genes are selfish and so are we, but we also are altruist when it can helps the gene pool.
Bad news: if you kill yourself to save your child, it was actually your instinct to save the genes.
Good news: who care ? it was altruistic
In the end, selfish/altruist are meaningless/[[Infinite recursion]] words.
But for sure [[Tit for tat|cooperating most of the time, while defecting sometimes and forgiving]] is a powerful strategy in multiplayer iterated game such as human society.
Humans are chemical survival machines with sole purpose to propagate the gene pool, once you bred children, you can [[Death 💀|die]].
Similar topic links:
[[Selfish gene]]
[[Genetic cooperation]]
[[Altruism]]
[[281122]]
[[Pros and cons of cloning yourself]]