From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 20:32:00 MDT
Robin wrote:
> Accepting your assumptions, a fox that can become a meta-fox is
> no more of a threat to any given meta-fox than another meta-fox is.
> So why doesn't that meta-fox run in and eat any meta-fox it sees
> eating a fox?
There is only one meta-fox.
> Also, any given meta-fox should care much less about
> what threatens the set of all meta-foxes as what threatens it
> personally.
Identity.
> Eating rabbits would seem to give it a much bigger
> personal gain than searching out foxes to attack.
Perhaps it doesn't require more resources, or not immediately, or perhaps it
can kill foxes and consume rabbits simultaneously. But its behaviour can be
explained if threat eradication is its number one priority.
Emlyn
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