Non-zero-sumness and how we can use it to help save humanity today - Robert Wright - activism global issues war cooperation Game Theory Culture

Description: Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness," a game-theory term describing how players with linked fortunes tend to cooperate for mutual benefit. This dynamic has guided our biological & cultural evolution, he says -- but our unwillingness to understand one another, as in the clash between the Muslim world & the West, will lead to all of us losing the "game." Once we recognize that life is a non-zero-sum game, in which we all must cooperate to succeed, it will force us to see that moral progress -- a move toward empathy -- is our only hope.