Brian2
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Other than food, shelter and clothing, what more does an individual need? My first addition would be other people.
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Other than food, shelter and clothing, what more does an individual need? My first addition would be other people.
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Or sex - pretty short life for a species without such.Three pages in and nobody has mentioned Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Three pages in and nobody has mentioned Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
I'm not sure that other people constitute a *need*. Companionship can be provided by a dog, after all. Often, that is even a better choice.
Other than food, shelter and clothing, what more does an individual need? My first addition would be other people.
I find this graphic more interesting:
Beat me...
Love is also a basic and early need. Maybe you have heard of this experiment:
Love is also a basic and early need. Maybe you have heard of this experiment:
In the United States, 1944, an experiment was conducted on 40 newborn infants to determine whether individuals could thrive alone on basic physiological needs without affection. Twenty newborn infants were housed in a special facility where they had caregivers who would go in to feed them, bathe them and change their diapers, but they would do nothing else. The caregivers had been instructed not to look at or touch the babies more than what was necessary, never communicating with them. All their physical needs were attended to scrupulously and the environment was kept sterile, none of the babies becoming ill.US Experiment on infants withholding affection
The experiment was halted after four months, by which time, at least half of the babies had died at that point. At least two more died even after being rescued and brought into a more natural familial environment. There was no physiological cause for the babies' deaths; they were all physically very healthy. Before each baby died, there was a period where they would stop verbalizing and trying to engage with their caregivers, generally stop moving, nor cry or even change expression; death would follow shortly. The babies who had "given up" before being rescued, died in the same manner, even though they had been removed from the experimental conditions.
The conclusion was that nurturing is actually a very vital need in humans. Whilst this was taking place, in a separate facility, the second group of twenty newborn infants were raised with all their basic physiological needs provided and the addition of affection from the caregivers. This time however, the outcome was as expected, no deaths encountered.
I think if I had no clothes, few could accept me as a friend!
Some good news for you!
I've been told that posting on RF is clothing optional. We'll still be your friends regardless.
I think it routinely escapes most of us that we're social animals. Don't know why that never seems to fully sink in, but it doesn't. Maybe it doesn't because we come from a culture that in so many ways denies some of the most profound implications of the fact we are social animals. But who really knows?
While we may be social animals, and I'm not in denial of that, I think one can survive without human interaction.
I'm not saying it would by any means be a pleasant experience or that it wouldn't have an impact on one's psyche, but I think one could survive without it.
Survive? Sure. If you knew how. But what would your quality of mind be like? Forget for the moment quality of life. We all know that would be reduced to bare basics. There's a reason most 'hermits' are not even close to being true hermits, and most true hermits are nuttier than fruitcakes.
As the primotologist Alison Jolly wrote some years ago in her book on the evolution of human intelligence, the rarest living arrangement for humans is true hermitage.