Desire synthesis

Desire synthesis is the process by which a sapient synthesizes its desires together in order to build a narrative it lives its life based on.

It can occur in both collective groups of sapients and individual minds. It is unclear whether this is a necessary feature of sapients or whether one could have language without desire synthesis or desire synthesis without language

Desire synthesis likely uses some kind of Servitors

Human male promiscuity may be a product of incomplete desire synthesis.

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