timtyler comments on Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky - Less Wrong
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As Wright says, organisms are not that harmonious anyway. At every polymorphic locus, two alleles are engaged in a battle-to-the-death.
There is still enough cooperation for people to describe the resulting behaviour as "purposeful" - despite all the underlying replicator-level conflicts that produce it.