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The conscious drive to perform apparently volitional acts with or without knowledge of the origin of the drive -- distinguished from affection and cognition.

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  • Adulthood is often referred to as the point of conation.
  • An alien brain, or a cybernetic one like Jaccavrie's, could think; it was aware; it had conation.
  • Accordingly our definition of desire becomes ‘conation-for-the-pleasant’: for the word ‘desire’ is the exact equivalent of the words
  • For often those who exhibit the conation do not perceive what is good or pleasant, so that their aim need not be really good or pleasant, but only apparently so.
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