Been feeling a lot of connection between a series of philosophical essays and a fanfic I've been reading, so want to work on interleaving the related parts to see what pops out:

“something like mammalian friendliness would not be parochial, but maybe a natural emergent feature of the universe. … laws of physics -> self-replication -> evolution -> brutal competition -> friendliness and suffering and meaning.”

Brings to mind Axelrod: “The Evolution of Cooperation”.