<Ah. Why not just go all the way and say its worthless.>
Why not go all the way and declare Newtons laws worthless now that Einstein came along?
< And conversely, we know that people don't have to be scared, threatened, or stressed to be reduced to doing wild things, to be driven by physiological needs. People do that every day too, without being driven to it by fear or hunger or ....>
YEs, well.. you know NOTHING is ever certain for everyone. It all depends on the person, It dosn't mean that general concepts aren't useful. In fact, one would argue that those you sight are actually quite high on the pyramid.
<Okay, that map of consciousness and the numbers applied to various things, whatever it means, if anything, is something other than Maslows heirarchy. >
Of course it's different... I think it's more accurate and descriptive is all. It also tends to coincide with Oriential Medical theory as to emotional states and physiological pathologies. Further it seems fits rather well with Western ideas about psychological mind states and actions.
<The heirarchy says there are levels of needs, all of which must be met in sequence to feel the next level of need: >
Here also one needs to transcend a predominant level of ones mindstate to move up to higher states. One cannot reason well when living predominantly in a state of fear, grief, apathy, etc.
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