/lit/ - Literature

>>4730449
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I hear all the time that we are just organisms who want to eat and sleep and reproduce and survive. While true at the low level, we fulfill these needs very easily in our society (well, for some of us).

Is that all that can be said for the needs of the human organism? That our bodies are fulfilled? No! We have needs of the mind: to know, to will, to understand, to evaluate... and we have this whole identity or character with its own emotions, drives, instincts. If we were simple biological organisms, we would feel fulfilled with the lowest-level needs met. But we are more. What is this more? It's up to you.

And are you going to turn to biology for the answer? Or are you going to turn to philosophy or self-examination?

animals only need the last bits on physiology