I think everything is grounded in basic human universal reinforcement signals. If you look at Steve’s Valence series, it’s a sketch of how the critic portion of the steering system expands those basic signals, by association, to complex representations of complex situations. So in my considered opinion, there’s not a sharp line between needs and wants.
So we can have a need for justice that’s almost arbitrarily strong. it might be stronger then our hunger, even when we’re pretty hungry.
So it doesn’t make sense to say it’s a need if I’m hungry but it’s really mild, like just feeling a little peckish, and not a need if I’m wanting respect very badly.
I think everything is grounded in basic human universal reinforcement signals. If you look at Steve’s Valence series, it’s a sketch of how the critic portion of the steering system expands those basic signals, by association, to complex representations of complex situations. So in my considered opinion, there’s not a sharp line between needs and wants.
So we can have a need for justice that’s almost arbitrarily strong. it might be stronger then our hunger, even when we’re pretty hungry.
So it doesn’t make sense to say it’s a need if I’m hungry but it’s really mild, like just feeling a little peckish, and not a need if I’m wanting respect very badly.