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If it weren't for a philosophical mind, we would have never invented the wheel. We aren't the same as other animals. "Modern" luxury? Philosophy is thousands of years in the making.
Yes we are slaves to our biology, but that biology includes a mind far more complex than any other animal. We see the world in a completely different way. We think in ways that are impossible for other creatures.
Save the "eating, shitting, and fucking" for the existentialist thread. If you want to discuss it here, then at least pull out some Sartre quotations. They're actually quite fun.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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