#Maslow hierachy of needs

[l-in-c-future]

Book Reading: Eastern Perspectives of Humanistic AI 2a: Philosophical perspctives of the contest between AI and natural intelligence

The "Happy" Experience Machine and its derived philosophies

The basic questions from these schools of philosophy are around:

Can machine programmed VIRTUAL experiences set in the metaverses fully satisfied ALL happiness pursuance of human beings?

If so, can the VIRTUAL programmed machines' experiences fully replaced REAL LIFE experiences?

Does the pursuance of happiness become the SOLE pursuance of human needs?

Imagine you are the lead characters in the Matrix movie or Total Recall movie being presented with the following scenario described by psychologist and philosopher Joshua Greene, what will be your choice?

"You wake up in a plain white room. You are seated in a reclining chair with a steel contraption on your head. A woman in a white coat is standing over you. 'The year is 2659,' she explains, 'The life with which you are familiar is an experience machine program selected by you some forty years ago. We at IEM interrupt our client's programs at ten-year intervals to ensure client satisfaction. Our records indicate that at your three previous interruptions you deemed your program satisfactory and chose to continue.

As before, if you choose to continue with your program you will return to your life as you know it with no recollection of this interruption. Your friends, loved ones, and projects will all be there.

Of course, you may choose to terminate your program at this point if you are unsatisfied for any reason.

Do you intend to continue with your program?" (Source: Wikipedia)

In the second scenario, there is a machine through which you can plug into your brain that can provide whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences you want by stimulating your brain to induce pleasurable experiences that you cannot have in real life but give you pleasures that are indistinguishable from real life experiences.

Will you prefer the machine stimulations or real life experience?

Behind the hypotheis of the debate of a fundamental philosophical question:

What IS happiness?

Then WHETHER there is something justifiable as "ethical" (and moral) hedomnism by an IMAGINED CHOICE between happiness in everyday real life and an apparently preferable simulated reality?

The classical utilitarians "pleasure is the good", which leads to the argument that any component of life that is not pleasurable does nothing directly to increase one's wellbeing. Accordingly, ANYTHING that serves the means to increase one's happiness FEELINGS and PERCEPTIONS are 'good enough' to be justified. A theory that is behind EVERY invention of the technologies metaverse, virtual reality and augemented reality and many robotic technologies. (e.g. the famous robot lovers (HER) depicted in movies, science fictions and in Japan's case, machine stimulations to simulate the pleasures of sexual activities, etc.)

Robert Nozick reasoned WHY human beings may choose to reject the happy machine experiences basing on the arguments and conclusions that:

IF experiencing as much pleasure as we can is ALL THAT MATTERS to us, THEN we have no reason not to plug into the experience machine. ]

Experiencing as much pleasure as we can is NOT ALL THAT MATTER to us.

Nozick provides three reasons not to plug into the machine.

We want to do certain things, and not just have the experience of doing them. In the case of certain experiences, it is only because first we want to do the actions that we want the experiences of doing them or thinking we’ve done them.

We want to BE a certain sort of person.

Plugging into an experience machine limits us to a man-made reality (it limits us to what we can make). There is no actual contact with any deeper reality, though the experience of it can be simulated.

Through the hypothetical happy experiences machine, Nozick refuted the Hedonists' view that the things that will make a person happiest both long term and short term is the highest and greatest value everyone holds. Therefore, people may still refuse to be plugged in.

In order to provide some sort of empirical evidence where Nozick didn't verify, philospher Felipe de Brigard asked 72 US university undergraduates whether they would like to disconnect from the machine given that they were already in it.

About their "real" life, they were told one of three stories:

(a) nothing;

(b) that they were prisoners in a maximum security prison; or

(c) that they were multimillionaire artists living in Monaco.

Of those who were told nothing of their "real" lives, 54% wished to disconnect from the machine.

Of those who were told they were prisoners, only 13% wished to disconnect.

This implies that one's real-life quality impacts whether it is preferred to the machine.

Of those told they were rich inhabitants of Monaco, half chose to disconnect, comparable to the proportion given no information about their "real" life.

De Brigard attributes his findings to status quo bias. He argues that someone's decision not to step into the machine has more to do with wanting the status quo than with preference of the current life over the simulated one. (Source Wikipedia).

Why are these different views important in the context of the wrestling between AI and natural HUMAN intelligence?

Going back to Maslow's pyramid of human needs: from the most basic physiological, safety, social, rising up to the higher needs of self-esteem and self-actualisation. What makes an individual climb up the pyramid? Humane centred thoughts schools conclude that humans are INTELLIGENT AND SPIRITUAL beings, these NATURAL characters and instincts drive us to pursue higher level of needs. The natural cognitive intelligence of human beings are products of human minds, hearts, souls and spirits.

Since human beings have higher needs, the questions become HOW such needs are best served FOR the benefits of HUMANS?

Then it comes to whether, how and what human invented technologies, including AI, can BEST created and applied to SERVE HUMAN NEEDS AT THE TOP OF THE NEEDS PYRAMID.

The arguments and justifications for humanistic AIs are based on the fundamental thoughts that technologies are there to serve and assist humans to better met the higher levels of needs WITHOUT displacement of human values, identity and dignity.

Utaritarians hold a different view that as long as whatever and 'whoever' provides the best functional and utilitarian values, anything is justified as means to the end. Therefore, whether that 'whover' is a human being to achieve the ultimate ends DOES NOT matter. If a machine or any technology can do the jobs, utlimate full displacement of humans in the process doesn't matter.

Such thinking DOES NOT discern quantitative and qualitative differences between humans and machines.

[minyardigan]

aftg brainrot disorder should be a recognized diagnosis in the dsm-5

[lookwhatyoumademelou]

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[starg1rl]

universe , i wanna let you know i am ready for a pathetic lesbian to enter my life

[grounded-african]

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." — Paulo Coelho

Bloganuary writing promptCan you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?View all responses I have read this prompt over and over and I keep asking myself if people have negative examples of where they have felt love? Anyway…I feel loved every day and I only realised this while contemplating a response to this prompt. I don’t think i have ever felt unloved. I have felt unappreciated…

[gideonnavsenormousbiceps]

Maslows hierarchy of needs directly inspired by how much I love my cat,,,,,

[meatballsander]

Confelicity my beloved Monk/Sovereign... 💞

8D

hello etrianheads please show me your eocs that are not based on any of the character portraits/are heavily customized if they are. i would like to see them

[liverpool-enjoyer]

i get so genuinely angry n have to bite my tongue in nursing school when we cover maslows hierachy of needs because WHY IS SEX LISTED AS A BASIC NEED ALONGSIDE FOOD WATER AND OXYGEN

[boygirlctommy]

one of my professors thought i was some kind of psychology student bcus i knew what maslows hierachy of needs was the other day. no im just on tumblr too much. sorry.

[hermitscar]

loving Skizz on hermitcraft so much already. Maslow's hierachy of needs is such a wild theme for a base - excited to see how that goes

[charliemaybeghost]

Using characters to help study is so much fun! Maslows 3rd level on the hierarchy of needs is "Social needs" which includes:

- friendship ("i remember when you told my only friend to shut his stupid mouth and die!" - crowley and i did not care for it)

romantic attachments ("and I would like to spend-ngnk - crowley)

family relationships ("oh, it's a human police officer." - she is their child you cannot tell me otherwise)

social groups (I feel like Maggie and Nina count)

community groups (the Jane Austin Ball for the street shop owners association meeting)

churches and religious organisations (heaven and hell, obviously)

"in order to avoid loneliness, depression and anxiety, it is important for people to feel loved and accepted by others." ... well we know how Crowleys going to be doing then :/ can't even meet level 3 of his needs.

he's also doing badly on level 2, Safety and Security (still disliked by hell), level 4 Self-esteem needs (he needs to accomplish things, feel valued and important, be recognised for success, have personal worth). but maybe despite this, he can still reach self-actualisation? The final level "the full use and exploration of talents, capabilities, potentials etc. ... self aware and less concerned with the opinions of others."

source: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-maslows-hierachy-of-needs-4136760

[ginneke]

i think it is crucial to note that in the Maslow's Hierachy of Soil:

Clay is essential for self-fulfilment

Silt and sand are psychological necessities

Loam and the right fucking triangle are basic needs.

/end ID addition.

[starg1rl]

A house is not a home without a butch lesbian’s lap to sit on

[pining-mx-diva-dumpster]

Art as a lover, muse, and life.

It’s cruel and selfish of me to keep my ideas in my head. I have so many thoughts about life, death, love. All aespects of the human condition that i would want to share with the only permanence I know. The written word, instead of the floating thoughts and spoken conversations. Twisted and turned around with time and the loss of proteins building and rebuilding the memory of what once was.

Death is the constant and life is the confounding variable. I don’t know why I think about the perfection of my writing. I want to make my writing as beautiful and messy as creation should be, if nothing is perfect other people can use it to make their own works and vision of perfect. There is nothing that i can do if my work doesnt hit the landing or create intense emotion with everyone that it come across. Perfection of art comes with the price of inability to experiment. What is the point of creation if you have reached the peak? Who is going to make the new top? Should there even be a new peak to reach.

I love reading, watching and experiencing art but there is nothing i hate more than the monetary value we put on art. I understand what the idea behind making money from art is. Surviving to create what you love is important in the maslow’s hierachy of needs but what does it mean to put a price on something that you see only the profit of? Where is the creator’s identity and soul come from, where will other people learn their own story and read it. The supply and demand for more and to let other’s pay to love a Tory as much as you seems to be the antithesis of art right?

Art to me is the expression of myself that I cannot find the call to make. I see her as a goddex that i need to worship and need to find the best things to present to her as if she is a spiteful hateful exisitance that will only accept the best. She is really a kind goddex that loves his worshippers like her own soul. As long as we keep creating she is alive and in us. I want to give him all of my love and I want to use her influence as a tool for my own love of art. I want to love him as I would love a romantic, platonic, and higher being. I want to devote my whole being and all I am to creation; art as an expression of all that I am and all that I can be.

[reasonably-human]

do you think like a maslow hierachy of needs graph but for your interests or something and how devoted to them you are would be good idea to organize that? thinkin about trying and making one

[tmasckotoko]

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