Examples of altruism A study from the University of Otago in New Zealand found that altruism boosts well-being and resilience after a tragedy. The study found that charitable acts seemed to benefit both the receiver and the altruist. Here are two inspiring examples of real people helping others...
The evolution of altruism—costly self-sacrifice in the service of others—has puzzled biologists1sinceThe Origin of Species. For half a century, attempts to understand altruism have developed around the concept that altruists may help relatives to have extra offspring in order to spread shared gen...
He figures their work as charitable and holds out as paradigmatic examples a current and former executive director who he believed were motivated by “good Catholic” values.Footnote 7 Of course, the executive directors, however deeply driven they may have been by these values, derived ...
Today, I want to look at the role of examplesin discussions by effective altruists. Effective altruists offer many striking examples of small changes that could be made to yield large benefits for current or future people. We are invited to imagine that these diamonds in the rough can be ea...
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DMT states, among others, are examples of non-room-temperature states of consciousness that you can use to test if your theory of ethics actually generalizes. How do you make sense of experiences that have more qualia, have mixed valence, have exotic phenomenal selves, and have valence effects...
Darwin’s real-life examples of speciation were taken from all manner of animals and plants, large and small, and in the absence of DNA analysis his scientific stories about the selection pressures that shaped these organisms rang of impeccable logic and sound scholarship. In modern terms, what...
3.4 Alcoves of Altruism and Trust Thus far, it was assumed that the altruism person i feels, she feels for everybody in her society. But, as the last discussion in the above sub-section alerts us and the examples in section 2 highlight, this need not be so. People do have different...
Examples include the “imitate if better” rule26,27, the “replicator rule”17,28,29 and ranked schemes where survival depends only on the order of wealth (wealthiest to poorest), as well as the linear scheme (\(K=\lambda w/(w+\sum \,{w}_{i})\)), and also the scheme in Box...
[14,15], and there are numerous empirical examples (see especially Table 2 in [16]) showing that there is a positive association between productivity (offspring number) and the levels of genetic variation within a resource. Thus, competition is known to be stronger in 'pure cultures' when ...