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"An essay on the 'Prisoner's Dilemma'." The problem of the prisoner's dilemma is an intriguing one. Elegant in it's simplicity at `first sight, on closer inspection it reveals a depth of complexity which can confound and confuse, leading observers first to one (seemingly) perfectly rational solution, and then subsequently to an equally rational and yet diametrically opposed one. In marked contrast to some of the equally well known yet more contrived paradigms (later we will consider Newcomb's Problem in which we pit our wits against some omnipotent being who apparently has the ability to predict our future behaviours) it is an instance of a paradoxical situation with which we can easily associate and as such is made all the more interesting. It is not hard to imagine oneself in the position of the prisoner deliberating as to the likely actions of his partner in crime (pun intended) whom, we can assume with...

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