Survival of the Cooperative

[Steve Gawron]

Hello Don and all,

There is an interesting book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi which supports that
concept of survival of ideas in a Darwinian context.  The book is called
"Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience", ISBN 0-06-016253-8

In brief, a "flow" experience is akin to reading a book you cannot put down.
I hope you enjoy the read.

Steve Gawron

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From: "Don Ferretti" <dferrett at placer.ca.gov>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 4:34 PM
Subject: Survival of the Cooperative


> I can give you a lot of detail to back this up but I will not take up
> air time here to do that. I just wanted to say that I know for a fact
> that the "survival of the fittest" mantra was not even spoken by Darwin.
> But, his whole body of work seems to have been boiled down to that idea.
> I have my theory as to why that is. But, if you really look at all of
> that work, the role of cooperation, adaptation and flexibility  plays a
> much more important role. We did not make it this far through
> competition, but through pervasive cooperation.
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