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<blockquote data-quote="Sinister" data-source="post: 109754" data-attributes="member: 2684"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Excerpt from: “Limits of Rationality” Chapter 7 by James S. Coleman. <u>Generating Norm Structures</u>. Pg 252</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><em>“John Maynard Smith, has observed the nondestructive actions used in intraspecies animal conflict and has attempted to show how such nondestructive strategies would have survival value in an evolutionary sense, even though they had a greater than even chance of losing in confrontation with a more destructive strategy. Maynard Smith developed the concept of ‘evolutionary stable strategy’, a strategy such that, if it is in use in a population of individuals, the population cannot be successfully invaded by a mutant using a different strategy. Maynard Smith & Price (1973) showed that in a particular setting there was an evolutionary stable strategy that was neither the most submissive nor the most destructive. Certain submissive strategies could be successfully invaded (that is, killed off) by mutants with a destructive strategy, but as those mutants multiplied, they would in turn kill each other off and because of their low level of survival, could be successfully invaded by mutants with a strategy which could defend fairly successfully against the destructive strategy but in interaction with one another had a higher survival rate. This last strategy could not, in turn, be successfully invaded by any other strategies among those specified by Maynard Smith & Price. Robert Axelrod (1984) added to the concept of evolutionary stability the concepts of viability (the ability of a strategy to invade a population in which another strategy is in use) and robustness (the ability to maintain itself in a variegated population consisting of several different strategies).”</em></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Evil as a substitution for a non-cooperative mutant strategy gives rise to change of strategy. Defection of norms IS an evolutionary variable that not only makes society stronger BUT ACTUALLY plays an active role in OUR SURVIVAL and behavioral PROGRESSION as a species!!!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Meditate on that for a bit and then go on to read more about ‘signaling theory’ authored by John Maynard Smith. Or finish the chapter in the book:</span></span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=7M82yReFf4sC&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=Holmstr%C3%B6m's+theorem&source=bl&ots=2rJLourI59&sig=Nv6P634uiZd1QUHutWtg5ocRCHU&hl=en&ei=QKeQSs_TKM2tlAe_0aS-DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">http://books.google.ca/books?id=7M82yReFf4sC&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=Holmstr%C3%B6m's+theorem&source=bl&ots=2rJLourI59&sig=Nv6P634uiZd1QUHutWtg5ocRCHU&hl=en&ei=QKeQSs_TKM2tlAe_0aS-DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=&f=false</span></span></span></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">then read:</span></span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy</span></span></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Then you and I can have an in-depth chat about why bad things happen to good people (from a non-symbolic interactionism perspective). Please note: I am not interested in discussing per chance variables that affect peoples lives (like cancer, or car crashes…as these in my rule book are part of nature governed by chaos…thus not evil). </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">cheers</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sinister, post: 109754, member: 2684"] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Excerpt from: “Limits of Rationality” Chapter 7 by James S. Coleman. [U]Generating Norm Structures[/U]. Pg 252[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][I]“John Maynard Smith, has observed the nondestructive actions used in intraspecies animal conflict and has attempted to show how such nondestructive strategies would have survival value in an evolutionary sense, even though they had a greater than even chance of losing in confrontation with a more destructive strategy. Maynard Smith developed the concept of ‘evolutionary stable strategy’, a strategy such that, if it is in use in a population of individuals, the population cannot be successfully invaded by a mutant using a different strategy. Maynard Smith & Price (1973) showed that in a particular setting there was an evolutionary stable strategy that was neither the most submissive nor the most destructive. Certain submissive strategies could be successfully invaded (that is, killed off) by mutants with a destructive strategy, but as those mutants multiplied, they would in turn kill each other off and because of their low level of survival, could be successfully invaded by mutants with a strategy which could defend fairly successfully against the destructive strategy but in interaction with one another had a higher survival rate. This last strategy could not, in turn, be successfully invaded by any other strategies among those specified by Maynard Smith & Price. Robert Axelrod (1984) added to the concept of evolutionary stability the concepts of viability (the ability of a strategy to invade a population in which another strategy is in use) and robustness (the ability to maintain itself in a variegated population consisting of several different strategies).”[/I][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Evil as a substitution for a non-cooperative mutant strategy gives rise to change of strategy. Defection of norms IS an evolutionary variable that not only makes society stronger BUT ACTUALLY plays an active role in OUR SURVIVAL and behavioral PROGRESSION as a species!!![/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Meditate on that for a bit and then go on to read more about ‘signaling theory’ authored by John Maynard Smith. Or finish the chapter in the book:[/SIZE][/FONT] [URL="http://books.google.ca/books?id=7M82yReFf4sC&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=Holmstr%C3%B6m's+theorem&source=bl&ots=2rJLourI59&sig=Nv6P634uiZd1QUHutWtg5ocRCHU&hl=en&ei=QKeQSs_TKM2tlAe_0aS-DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=&f=false"][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]http://books.google.ca/books?id=7M82yReFf4sC&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=Holmstr%C3%B6m's+theorem&source=bl&ots=2rJLourI59&sig=Nv6P634uiZd1QUHutWtg5ocRCHU&hl=en&ei=QKeQSs_TKM2tlAe_0aS-DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=&f=false[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]then read:[/SIZE][/FONT] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy"][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy[/SIZE][/FONT][/url] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Then you and I can have an in-depth chat about why bad things happen to good people (from a non-symbolic interactionism perspective). Please note: I am not interested in discussing per chance variables that affect peoples lives (like cancer, or car crashes…as these in my rule book are part of nature governed by chaos…thus not evil). [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]cheers[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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