Post by ambercyw on Nov 10, 2017 22:47:55 GMT
Cooperation could have risen from evolution because humans who had more cooperative strategies could have been more likely to survive and reproduce. The human brain would have the capacity to trigger certain emotions that initiate cooperation among individuals. This idea is compatible with Social Darwinism which claims that people are subject to the same laws of natural selection and the best will survive and reproduce to create a stronger human race.
In Damasio's book, cooperation is strongly related to ethical behaviour in humans. Damasio has found evidence in animals having a sense of ethics. For example, rhesus monkeys will abstain from pulling a chain that will give them food if pulling that chain will also cause another monkey to receive an electric shock. This a type of altruistic behaviour that may seem to go against natural selection but it may in fact be beneficial for organisms within a group. There is no concrete biological evidence that cooperation is a result of evolution. Damasio does not believe that there are "moral centers" in the brain that causes us to act ethically. However, he believes that there are parts of the brain that regulate memory, decision-making, and creativity; ethical behaviours, therefore cooperation, are a side effect of those activities. There is no concrete biological evidence to support Social Darwinism either because there aren't specific genes associated with beneficial characteristics that would enhance survival and reproduction. The relationship between genes and behaviour is rather complex and indirect.
In Damasio's book, cooperation is strongly related to ethical behaviour in humans. Damasio has found evidence in animals having a sense of ethics. For example, rhesus monkeys will abstain from pulling a chain that will give them food if pulling that chain will also cause another monkey to receive an electric shock. This a type of altruistic behaviour that may seem to go against natural selection but it may in fact be beneficial for organisms within a group. There is no concrete biological evidence that cooperation is a result of evolution. Damasio does not believe that there are "moral centers" in the brain that causes us to act ethically. However, he believes that there are parts of the brain that regulate memory, decision-making, and creativity; ethical behaviours, therefore cooperation, are a side effect of those activities. There is no concrete biological evidence to support Social Darwinism either because there aren't specific genes associated with beneficial characteristics that would enhance survival and reproduction. The relationship between genes and behaviour is rather complex and indirect.