I have been thinking about the will to live a lot lately and am just wondering if you guys think it's driven more by our biology or something like hope for something more/better. — HannahPledger
It has the ring of a certain form of panpsychism to it but then I have those inclinations — prothero
Conatus, I think, is the speculative source of Schop's 'Ding an sich'.I have been thinking about the will to live a lot lately and am just wondering if you guys think it's driven more by our biology or something like hope for something more/better. — HannahPledger
Well relying solely on the notion of biology it would be little more than glorified pleasure chasing robed in psuedo-intellectual grandeur. A glorified dopamine addiction. We feel good when we eat, best others, socialize and then some. Naturally I'd hope and do believe there is much more to it. In humans at least. — Outlander
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