[reply= "trueself;d1837"]

That competitivenss, aggressivenss, is probably from our Chimpanzee ancestry. Fortunately we aren't all Primate. We have Pig ancestry too. There's good evidence that humans are a Chimpanzee-Pig hybrid. (Admittedly, nearly all of our pre-human ancestors were of the Chimpanzee lineage--there evidently were only one or a few pigs in our family-tree).

By "hybrid", I'm referring to a hybridization, followed by continuing repeated "back-hybridization", in which all the offspring of successive hybrid generations mated with the same one of the two hybridizing species.

Trans-ordinal hybridization isn't unheard of.

Back-hybridization isn't unheard of.

Unusual? Sure. Are humans a "usual" species?

More can be found on the web, by googling "Are we a Chimpanzee-Pig Hybrid" (or some such question). I believe that the hybridization-specialists geneticist who makes that suggestion is named Eugene McCarthy (not to be confused with the 60s & 70s politician by that name). He has a website that goes into it at great length, and answers objections.

In fact, maybe include his name when you google.

My two questions are,
who's game are we in — trueself

Each of us is in our own story (or game, if you prefer), of course. Who else's?

, and more importantly on which hardware do we run?

As I mentioned in the "Our World a Simulation?" topic, our life-experience possibility story doesn't need simulation-hardware. It's a possibility-story, and the infinitely-many possibility-stories are there already, and don't need a computer simulation.

Computer simulation can't create a possibility-story, because the infinity of possibility-stories are already there. A computer simulation an only create an opportunity for its programmers to observe a story.

Michael Ossipoff