The Prisoner's Dilemma

"The prisoner's dilemma is a paradox in decision analysis in which two individuals acting in their own self-interests do not produce the optimal outcome. Today, the prisoner's dilemma is a paradigmatic example of how strategic thinking between individuals can lead to suboptimal outcomes for both players." as what googles says but lets take another approach to this game.

Ill update that another day, but for now lets talk about Behavior Shall we?

Behavior.

Let us take an example of a Lion and its cub. Take lion 1 and cub 1 and lion 2 and cub 2 as A, B, C, and D respectively. Animals not just humans have taken up revenge in the past. (Behavioral Evolution)

I have recently viewed a course by Stanford where Professor Robert Sapolsky talks about different examples of animal behavior, and hence I have decided to write about this as it was quite interesting how animals and humans have a lot in common, we tend to never take a moment to notice how we as humans tend to act the way we are. I myself am not a student of Biology nor a phycologist yet I have decided I would write about this today.

Back to the example I was talking about before. An animal A does something bad to animal C, a few days later, animal D notices this and does something bad to animal B.

In this example, its funny how animal D didn't do something bad to animal A but rather did something wrong to animal B. To get more clarity, Cub 2 does something bad to Cub 1 as Lion 1 likes Cub one and what had affected the lion 2 would indirectly anger cub 2 hence causing cub 2 to attack cub 1. Notice how revenge took a funny path here? Indeed a common story in many movies, but it is this one act that the animal here has done that is fascinating. It has chosen to harm the other animal in an indirect way. Has it not?

Let us take another example of animals A, B, C where one animal ( A ) want to harm another (B), here Given enough hate, animal A would do anything at any costs to harm B, even if it were to harm A as well.

This is the present situation. Had we been several years before, there was a theory saying that "a animal lives for the good of its species", but what has that happened now?

As I've given examples before, lets take an example for that theory I said before.

A pack of gazelles are running from a tiger, and one gazelle decides to go as bate to save the other gazelles. There you go! an example of this.

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Reciprocal Altruism

is when you only put in the work for what you will get. It generally happens between unrelated individuals where one decides to help the other in times of need in hope that they would help you in your time of need.

Lets say u have to get a chocolate and you need to split it with your friend, you will split it in the amount that would equally give u the proper amounts u deserve in your opinion,

What if your friend ate your chocolate last week, you tend to eat the whole chocolate because he owes you.

or lets say you asked the teacher for a chocolate and you earned the chocolate, then you would eat a majority of the chocolates or the chocolate itself as you have done all the work in achieving what you have gotten. You in other words balance out the proportions.

In achieving you prize, you will decide in cheating to get the majority of the prize without sharing as you want more of it. You will do this in a way which you will avoid being caught

If you do a game show and you say u will reward a person for something they do you may try to cheat the person for the benefit of the host(you). We can pick up cheating as opposed to acts of kindness much more easily. ..........

Tit for tat in another way.

Hence this is one of the human behavioral biogical evolution

Sinosidual changes in cheating and cooperation.

Let us say it we had a game where one person can cheat or cooperate, and if both cooperate the game goes smooth, but suppose one party cheated in one game, then the other would know and he would cheat back, and if the first party cooperates again then the game would continue as before. But what if there was an error in the system where the 2nd party assumed the first party cheated even if they did not. Then the 2nd party would cheat in the next round to make it even, and the 1st party that did not actually cheat would in return cheat thinking the 2nd party cheated first

This is when they would start cheating in each other to infinity back and forth. Doagranicalky it would be a sinosidual function. Where each party will cheat there is a situation of forgiveness.

More to be added soon!