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title: A surprising outcome of human reductionism
description: People can be reduced to the same core desires, but this sheds light on the multitude of different ways in which we try to achieve them.
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# A surprising outcome of human reductionism

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You can reduce people to the same core desires and make them rather boring. There is an interesting repercussion to that reduction of humanity, though. It displays the cornucopia of different ways in which people try to achieve the same desires. While we may all want the same things we have an unbelievable amount of creativity and individuality when it comes to getting them.