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#344 - Luke Burgis - Mimetic Desire: Why Do We Want?
Modern Wisdom
Are There Humans Out There Who Don't Have Ants?
Do we have any wants that aren't memetic, do you think? Or are there humans out there who don't have ants? Tha, ant memetic? That's a great question, and a topic of of great debate among people that that read gerard. Some would say noa, i think there's some new ants, right? There's there's some distinctions that we con make. For instance, instinctual things that we have a biological drive for, a food and water, a sexual pleasure,. These kinds of things. A, they're kind of like built into us we could call those desires, but i like to sort of think of those more in the needs
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