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Old 03-25-2004, 10:21 AM   #4 (permalink)
Mantus
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Tiberry,

Where does out need for experience come from? It’s that just curiosity which could be pinned down as yet another animalistic tendency?


I believe that the drive behind our actions is largely instinctive. We have a base set of objectives in life. The main one is reproduction; all other needs derive from satisfying it. We also have our minds, which have the power to shape the instinctive forces that drive us. I am still questioning whether the mind can create its own motives. It seems that everything, which appears original to our brains, resembles an instinct in some shape or form. Though we see our world though metaphors (we identify things that look alike and group them together) so we might have trouble telling an original mental urge apart from an instinctive urge.
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