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>>11381175
>>11381219
While it's certain that other species think differently from us, there are still some commonalities where altruism may show itself, even if it's from their perspective. Something like sharing of killed prey is pretty common, for example. I also think it's something that formed through genetic mutation, the origin of which occurred much much earlier, with the beginning of multicellular organisms, or perhaps even prior.

The type of group/society altruism we see in humans, then, might be thought of a more recent cognitive layer on top of a time tested instinct for survival. Kind of like rationalizing, and maybe that's what we see when we move from viewing family as kin, to less genetically close friends as kin. In any case, it _does_ seem like we're talking about slightly different things when it comes to what it means to be altruistic (the bit about priorities, vs. simply caring about others). Ah well..

In spite of your interpretation of altruism, I think your comment here >>11381104 about how there's a certain amount of irrationality that comes with altruistic behavior can still be applied generally. Only then, if you change the scope of what you're looking at (i.e. from individual to group), what might have been irrational, is no longer considered that way. So scoping solves the paradox of doing irrational things while being completely rational about it, it's kind of neat.


Ougai was the best, no doubt!

Yup, yup, thanks for sharing. It's nice getting into more in depth discussions once in a while. Not that I don't enjoy posting pretty pictures any less!

>>10822511

Is what I think happening happening?

Do you like my wings, /jp/?

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