Organism Need

An Organism Need is a deficit-based organism motivational state that creates behavioral pressure for need satisfaction to maintain organism functioning and survival.

• AKA: Biological Requirement, Organismic Need, Fundamental Need.
• Context:
  • It can typically generate Need-Driven Behavior through organism need activation thresholds.
  • It can typically prioritize Resource Seeking through organism need urgency hierarchy.
  • It can typically trigger Homeostatic Responses through organism need imbalance detection.
  • It can typically influence Attention Allocation through organism need salience signals.
  • It can typically regulate Energy Expenditure through organism need cost-benefit assessment.
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  • It can often compete with Other Needs through organism need priority systems.
  • It can often manifest across Species Boundarys through organism need evolutionary conservation.
  • It can often vary in Expression Patterns through organism need environmental adaptation.
  • It can often determine Survival Outcomes through organism need satisfaction success.
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  • It can range from being a Primary Organism Need to being a Secondary Organism Need, depending on its organism need survival criticality.
  • It can range from being a Physiological Organism Need to being a Psychological Organism Need, depending on its organism need functional domain.
  • It can range from being a Individual Organism Need to being a Social Organism Need, depending on its organism need fulfillment context.
  • It can range from being a Constant Organism Need to being a Periodic Organism Need, depending on its organism need temporal pattern.
  • It can range from being a Simple Organism Need to being a Complex Organism Need, depending on its organism need satisfaction requirement.
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• Examples:
  • Physiological Needs for biological function.
  • Safety Needs for threat avoidance.
  • Psychological Needs for mental well-being.
  • Social Needs for group functioning.
  • Nutritional Needs for energy maintenance.
  • Reproductive Needs for species continuation.
  • Shelter Needs for environmental protection.
  • Sleep Needs for restoration process.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Preference, which represents optional choices rather than requirements.
  • Luxury, which exceeds basic requirements.
  • Habit, which constitutes learned patterns rather than fundamental needs.
• See: Need, User Need, Agent Motive, Psychological Need, Gratification-Seeking Act, Belongingness Need, Human Need, Organism Drive, Personal Pursuit, Organism Motivational State, Need Theory, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/need Retrieved:2024-1-8.
  • A need is dissatisfaction at a point of time and in a given context. Needs are distinguished from wants. In the case of a need, a deficiency causes a clear adverse outcome: a dysfunction or death. In other words, a need is something required for a safe, stable and healthy life (e.g. air, water, food, land, shelter) while a want is a desire, wish or aspiration. When needs or wants are backed by purchasing power, they have the potential to become economic demands.

    Basic needs such as air, water, food and protection from environmental dangers are necessary for an organism to live. In addition to basic needs, humans also have needs of a social or societal nature such as the human need to socialise or belong to a family unit or group. Needs can be objective and physical, such as the need for food, or psychical and subjective, such as the need for self-esteem. The concept of "unmet need" arises in relation to needs in a social context which are not being fulfilled.

    Needs and wants are a matter of interest in, and form a common substrate for, the fields of philosophy, biology, psychology, social science, economics, marketing and politics.

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