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    It is not the case that Even granting the descriptive doctrine, agents demonstrably desire states—love, understanding, aesthetic experience—that are not straightforwardly reducible to power-acquisition.

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    • 1.Love, understanding, and beauty enhance social status, cognitive capability, and reproductive fitness—indirect power gains.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'intrinsic' and 'instrumental' desire is unclear; felt immediacy doesn't prove non-instrumental structure.
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    • 3.Power-theorists can redefine power broadly (influence over outcomes, self-determination) making the claim vacuous rather than refuted.
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    • 1.Love, understanding, and aesthetic experience are intrinsically valued—pursued for their own sake, not as means to dominance.
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    • 2.Power-acquisition theories cannot explain why agents sometimes sacrifice power to preserve love, truth-seeking, or beauty.
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    • 3.Phenomenologically, these states feel fundamentally different from competitive or acquisitive desires in kind, not merely degree.
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