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status: #idea  
Tags:  [[desire]], [[want]]

# If we could engineer our desires what would you want to want?

- p.188 "Historian Yuval Noah Harari ends his book  *Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind * with these words: 'But since we might soon be able to engineer our desires, too, the real question facing us is not 'What do we want to become?,' but 'What do we want to want?' ... the question implies that it's possible to want to want something, yet not be capable of wanting it. ... We cannot want what we lack a model for."
- "Want to want" - I desire to have a desire. Taking the first step might be boring, but continuing to step creates momentum building to desire.

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# References
[[R.LB_WPDEL]] p.188