The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions
The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions
According to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan [1651; 2008 (Touchstone, New York), English Ed], "the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," and it would need powerful social institutions to establish social order. In reality, however, social cooperation can also arise spontaneously, based on local interactions rather than centralized …