<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>Robert Trivers &lt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:
To:</td><td>Sunday, August 21, 2016 3:39 PM
Jeffrey E.</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re:</td></tr></table>

good question

in science: to be a=le to reduce something to its simplest most fundamental elements, themselv=s then linked together by simple (apparently incontrovertible) logic <=r> Richard Feynman was a master at explaining this for physics

Feynman on why magnets work:

https://www.yout=be.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8>

how does a mirro= work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tuxLY94LXw <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D6tuxLY94LXw>

all of my original work was extremely simple, natural selec=ion (differential reproductive success) being extremely simple (while sele=tion for species advantage was both complex and wrong)

and the phenomena i applied it to e.g. (parent-offspring confli=t) follows at once from r's being 1/2 in nuclear family, reciprocal al=ruism with a cheater being the obvious basis for friendship and coordinate= benefit between individuals of low r, etc etc

la=er work more complex but not much and everything built up slowly and solid=y from the simple foundation

—E2

daily life:

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here i tend to be (at best) an acute observ=r of the behavior of those around me—WITHOUT letting them know thi= fact; here in Jamaica, they can lie and cheat until their tongues fall ou=, i am just writing it down in my brain without their knowledge, hence the= keep it up

all best

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 8:50 AM, j=ffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com» wrote:

in your view, what does it =ean to understand something/?

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