Knowledge Animal
Social animals
2007-04-26 00:00:00

Knowledge animals may seem anti-social. We are not. Knowledge animals are programmed to seek company of others. Let me explain why I think so.

The selfishness and proud of knowledge animals do not prevent them from socialising. The care for off-spring, drive for survival can explain quite well why people are actually social animals. Like animals lived in groups and cooperated to protect their members to predators, people and their organisations ?through cooperation? develop a competitive edge against other people and organisations. Socializing, being in (virtual) neighborhood of one another eases cooperation and is therefore beneficial for survival.

So we, knowledge animals are actually programmed to seek company of colleagues, friends, peers. Let's have a drink toghether ;-)

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