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%COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR 850706
In cooperative behavior many parts of a whole work
together in an integrated way which accomplishes that
which separated parts could not accomplish without
coordination. The essence of cooperative behavior is
coordination through communication among the parts. The
integration and integrity of the behavior depends upon
accurate communication.
Efforts to understand cooperative behavior lead to
reductionistic analysis in which the whole is supposed to
be understood in terms of the elementary nature of the
smallest conceivable parts of the whole. People whose
purpose it is to understand the whole in terms of
elementary parts deny the reality of purpose as an
explanatory category. They do not try to explain their
own behavior according to their own purpose! Their
purpose leads them to blind themselves to the implications
of their purpose to the analysis of their own behavior in
a way which would be in keeping with their purpose. It is
a strange loop!
Efforts to understand cooperative behavior lead to
the use of statements of purpose as explanatory concepts;
the elementary parts of a whole behave as they do in order
to accomplish the final effect. The final effect is
perceived as the source of the force which attracts the
behavior of the parts into cooperative behavior which
leads to the final effect. The roles of cause and effect
are reversed and the effect becomes the cause of the
effect.
A profound understanding of cooperative behavior and
the profound facilitation of cooperative behavior depends
upon the two divergent tendencies just described. This
will entail the cooperation of people with divergent
purposes and conceptions of the nature of reality. To
cooperate they will need to develop commonality of purpose
and conception of how the consequences of their behavior
relate to their purposes and behavior; and to their
conceptions of the nature of reality and processes of
cause and effect.
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