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how cooperation can emerge among egoists without central authority.
Robert Axelrod • The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition
But the humans have her in their grip, and she’ll never get free again.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
In the beginning there was chaos. Then rebellion. Then war. Then slavery. Then us. So said the myths of the ancient Near East.
Glen Scrivener • The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
“You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don’t know how people ought to live.”