Cooperative behaviour is made possible only by entities that are acting in their own self interests - primarily that genes, acting in their own self interests - build brains that engage in cooperative behaviour.
I don't see why there couldn't be entities that don't act in their own self interets but make cooperative behavior possible. Too, people can do cooperative things for totally retarded reasons that don't stem from anything that make any sense at all. Or, they could do something cooperative for no reason at all. I don't think its true that cooperative behaviour is made possible only by entities that are acting in their own self interests.
My argument with jar was largely that your unconscious 'psychological drives' may be selfish,
See, I was seeing you as saying that your unconscious 'psychological drives'
may have to be selfish.
Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.