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On human nature

On human nature

Chapter 05 — Need and opportunity • 05.01 — A need specific to humans • Paragraph 9 • §05.01.09.00

Comparison, and not conflict, is natural to humans. If this is the case, are humans by nature aggressive? Is human life by its nature ‘brutish, nasty and short’ as famously argued by Hobbes? Or, is it that of the ‘noble primitive’ of Rousseau? What is the true human nature? Naturally, there can be no answer to this question—any response reveals more about its author’s beliefs than any universally acceptable truth. In any event, from the approach of information processing, it is comparison, and not conflict, that is natural to humans.

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