<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # We imagine savagery and altruism as cosmic... > We imagine savagery and altruism as cosmic opposites, good and evil struggling across some metaphysical battlefield, when from the standpoint of physics both are transient behavioral arrangements inside organisms that will cool, decay and return their borrowed matter to the world. **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “We imagine savagery and altruism as cosmic opposites, good and evil struggling across some metaphysical battlefield, when from the standpoint of physics both are transient behavioral arrangements inside organisms that will cool, decay and return their borrowed matter to the world.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-imagine-savagery-altruism-borrowed-matter-world ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->