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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: "selfishness" & "altruism"
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:41:05 +0100

On 18 Dec 2007, at 16:58,  wrote:

> One of my core theses is that conscious motivation ALWAYS stems  
> from self
> interest

This doesn't take into account the very strong evidence for group  
evolution (see eg. the book "Unto others") and the research on  
hardiness in social psychology, also very well supported.


dss


David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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