Monthly Archives: January 2016

This due to that

Various religious scriptures are in its contents, as well as the uttered wisdom of holy men, often boiled down to the slogan ‘do unto others as you would have them do to you’, which is on appearence reasoanle enough.

Did it occur to you that this summation is a good analogue of Axelrod’s game-theoretic strategy of ‘Tit-for-Tat”? This is fascinationg in that the TfT approach to games (i.e. interactions between conscious agents, leading up the ladder to human interaction on a given scale)  is as per current theory, experiment and evidence available, the method of cooperation which in its process is the most stable and as well provides the best results; that is the least conflict.

‘Do unto others…’ may not (seem to) work that well for individuals, but if applied on the larger scale, it is  likely to produce the result of a lasting, low degree of social agression.

The irony of this is of course that successfully applying this on a larger scale is precisely predicated by that of individual adopting it.