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40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 23 June 2014 07:19:15AM *  0 points [-]

I do suspect that our thousand shards of desire being contradictory and not resolving is selected for, in that we are thus money-pumped into propagating our genes.