Hey Rog,
ROG
I would say that interaction can also lead to cooperation. As we
> progress up the levels, competition gains in its ability to be
cooperative.
> For example, companies learn from their competitors, and scientists
> definitely gain more from other scientists and theories than they lose. I
> once thought about coining a new word "coopetition" to portray how
> competition and cooperation can be more inter-related than people think,
but
> then I found someone else already appropriated the word.
RICK
When applying a 'marketplace' metaphor to the intellectual level one should
not forgot that the competitors are the ideas themselves rather than the
scientists (or philosophers, etc.) who create them. 'Cooperating ideas' is
jargon for 'compatible theories'... and it is always nice when theories
agree with each other (a situation in which one idea holds a necessary key
to revealing the value another may even be worked into some sort of
intellectual version of Nash's equilibrium). But the real action in the
marketplace comes when we have to make choices via the prioritization of
values; when some patterns must be embraced and others discarded. That's
where DQ is really activated.
I don't want to say too much yet, but I know you're a game theorist so I'll
be especially interested in you opinion when I finish that essay.
thanks,
rick
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