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    Challenges→Self-deception cannot require that the self-deceptive belief itself be desired.

    The desire need not be for the belief's propositional content but for the identity-sustaining role the belief plays, making desire integral to the mechanism without requiring the belief itself to be pleasant.

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    desire(Plato's account of desire in the Meno and Symposium)
    A motivational state analogous to hunger — a felt lack or want directed toward its object
    identity-sustaining role(philosophy of mind/personal identity)
    The function a belief serves in keeping you feeling like yourself or maintaining who you are as a person.
    integral to the mechanism(philosophy of mind)
    Essential to how something works—like a necessary part of an engine that makes it run.
    propositional content(philosophy of language)
    The semantic content of a sentence and its truth conditions, distinguished from the information a sentence is used to communicate

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