Sun July 29: Self or Society: Are we fundamentally cooperative or competitive?

Our event starts at 11 am on the 2nd floor of the Koffler House (569 Spadina Avenue)

Bob Fisher

In animals, predators are most often selfish loners, although wolves, many apes and most marine mammals hunt cooperatively. Herbivores normally either live individually in safe environments, like trees, or are highly gregarious. Humans are somewhere in the middle and this duality emerges in many forms such as the political split seen in many countries between competitive, business-oriented, low-tax policies versus community-minded, cooperative, pro-welfare-state policies, or even simply Good and Evil which are strongly associated with, respectively, giving to the community and taking from it.

Join us this week for a group discussion on this topic. Share your experiences, knowledge and ideas! The discussion will be facilitated by Bob Fisher. Bob is a physicist and engineer originally from the UK, based in Houston and working temporarily in Toronto. He is approaching retirement and has no formal training in sociology or psychology: in fact he doesn’t understand people at all. In his spare time he is working on a book for an improved system of democracy.

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