Cooperation, evolution, and culture
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Rejecting evolutionary principles is a mistake, because evolutionary processes produced the irrational human minds for which Colman argues. An evolved cultural ability to acquire information socially and infer other's mental states (mind-reading) evokes Stackelberg reasoning. Much of game theory however, assumes away information transfer and excludes the very solution that natural selection likely created to solve the problem of cooperation.
