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That's an oversimplification. If you look closer, you might find that most living things are mostly living in symbiosis with their surroundings. Your human body
by hutzlibu 3y ago
That's an oversimplification. If you look closer, you might find that most living things are mostly living in symbiosis with their surroundings. Your human body is an example of cooperation of simple life forms. And when those living cells of your body consume everthing they can and reproduce as much as they can - than this is called cancer.
- golergka 3y agoThose statements do not contradict each other. Life forms consume and reproduce as much as they can, and they also live in cooperation and symbiosis. The latter can often be the most effective strategy to consume and reproduce as much as one wants.
- BSEdlMMldESB 3y agoyes, agree the issue then, is how to decide what "as much as we can" even means; if we do "as much as we can" but this kills us, then it will have turned out that we indeed could not do that much
- hutzlibu 3y ago"That's what all life forms do — consume everything they can and reproduce as much as they can" Well, if you take this statement literal, then I think they do contradict each other - see my cancer example. But in the way you apparently meant it, then no, there is no contradiction.
- Terr_ 3y agoSurvivorship bias: Mutual benign coexistence and symbiosis within the present are rooted in massacres of the past.