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<p>The usefulness of a model is demonstrated in the ability to predict and direct future outcomes. Understanding human motivation and consequent action in the abstract is useful, but we need a way to orient in "motivation space" to be able to assess while needs/drives/unease are at play and their comparative rankings so that we can know before the conscious actor acts what action they will take.<br>
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<p>I think Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Erikson's Stages provide a skeleton for that predictive framework. We arrive with the innate capacity to learn any language and socialize into any culture. As the brain matures, children mature through a series of dichotomous tasks and drives, like Autonomy vs Shame. If met with the appropriate feedback at the appropriate time, children mature to the next phase.<br>
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<p>An objective morality provides a framework for ideal socialization. Deviations from the model of an ideal conscious agent can then be traced back to either current unease based on unmet needs or historical unease based on incorrect stimulus at specific developmental phases.<br>
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<p>Since the nature of a network is determined from the bottom up, from the nature of the nodes and their interconnection, we can take the understanding of the individual and its maturation and extrapolate to societies that provide appropriate feedback and reward ideal development and self-actualization. </p>
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