Is a community just a place, any place, where people “co-exist”? Are there real and false communities? Source: pixabayIs a real family where people don’t get along, and they don’t talk to each other? Is that a real family or real community? Or is that more of the appearance of a real family? What about a house where there is […]
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Human animals aren’t the only ones who have a comprehension of fairness built in. I had recently done a post on how babies can grasp concepts fairness and correlate it with sharing. Non-human animal minds are often compared to that of a child, and we can find fairness in the animal kingdom outside of the human animal. Ravens are recognized […]
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Children have different sharing characteristics, but there is a basis for a sense of fairness and altruism in infancy. Babies (as young as 15-months-old) relate equal ration distribution with their willingness to share a toy. Some favor fairness and sharing, while others don’t. Is this nurtured from their parents and environment, or part of their specific “nature”? Cooperation Some people […]
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The beating drum of economic theory claims we are primarily motivated by self-interest, and that’s what to expect from people in life. If that is true, why do we also enjoy performing acts of generosity/giving/sharing that don’t provide us with any return for what we put out? If our main motivation was to focus on the pure gains we can […]
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Most of us have a common sense to prefer to deal with others who demonstrate that they are fair, reasonable and can possibly be helpful as a result. Those who demonstrate unfairness and irrationality tend to be people that will not help us find solutions because they are incapable of doing so. People who display harmful intentions, outright harmful actions, […]
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Putting an artificial intelligence agent in charge of complex facets of human life involves specific goals to be worked towards. What happens when there are multiple artificial intelligence agents within a larger system that are managing the economy, traffic and other environmental challenges and trying to meet each of their own specific goals? If I have the goal to do […]
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The limits to harmony in a community are based upon the interactivity each member as with others. If your community goes beyond the interconnectivity each member can have with other members, exclusion takes place. Eventually, those who are more excluded from the greater interconnectivity will form their own groups of connectivity and interactivity, hence another community. The harmony is not […]
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