“Thus evolved some members of the Core—not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.”

— Dan Simmons , book The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 20 (p. 406)

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