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Appetition or Desire is a biological force, already present in the most basic organisms as the means to exceed the given, to improvise upon changes in a known situation, to reorient when a routine fails.
— Feb 27, 2026 04:03AM
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Instinct is continuous with play, and as the force of the drive derives from the former, so does all intensity of action sprout from the lusory, the wellspring of life that is the dramatic engagement with the world.
— Jan 29, 2026 03:50PM
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The meta-communicative register of play as found in animals is the evolutionary foundation for language, insofar as the normative character of assertion is ultimately grounded in metalinguistic practices and their norms.
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