Boreas Podcast

Homo Desiderans

• Season 3 • Episode 35

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  • What is it that makes us uniquely human? Thinking (homo sapiens)? Organizing (homo economicus)? Symbols (“the symbolic species”)?
  • I propose that it is desire in Girardian sense — we are homo desiderans: the desiring humans.
  • Artificial intelligence versus the desiring human.
  • Wordcels, shape rotators, and a third way.


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