Evolution recast as “survival of the friendliest”
From Jag Bhalla at BigThink: 1. Life’s games are not all “red in tooth and claw” fights. And you need no brain to see that a “war of all against all” might not be the best way. Even single-celled bacteria “know” that. Stop, wait. Single-celled bacteria do not “know” anything and never will. The reason that they do not behave according to the survival of the fittest is that because the Darwinian theory of evolution is wrong. Better theory can explain how they behave co-operatively without attributing minds to them. To “know”what is going on in Bhalla’s sense is to have a mind like a human being. 2. In “Survival of the Friendliest” Kelly Clancy describes the evolutionary logic of relationships Read More ›