00100	HUMAN MOTIVATIONAL STRUCTURE FROM AN AI POINT OF VIEW
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00300	
00400		From an artificial intelligence point of view, humans have
00500	a very complicated motivational structure.
00600	
00700		1. A servomechanism controls a variable so as to reduce its
00800	difference from a desired value.
00900	The human body contains many such servomechanisms, but human
01000	conscious goal-seeking cannot be described as a simple servomechanism.
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01200		2. A heuristic program may search a space of possibilities
01300	for a solution to a problem.  Human behavior is more complicated
01400	than that.
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01600		3. Human goals are acquired in strange ways.  Once acquired
01700	they are often independent of what gave rise to them.  Thus subgoals
01800	can be pursued even in opposition to the main goals that gave rise
01900	to them.
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02100	WELL, THIS ISN'T GOING RIGHT
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02300	A. The goal of having a goal.
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02500	B. Most animals have an inborn set of goals, e.g. hunger, etc.
02600	When these goals are satisfied, they lie about.
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02800	C. Associated with each human goal is the goal of being able to
02900	satisfy it in the future and the fear of not being able to
03000	satisfy it.
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03200	D. the fear of death combined with the knowledge of its
03300	inevitabilityhas effects on the goal structure that have
03400	to be analyzed.
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03600	E. The neglect of behaviorist and psychoanalytic concepts in
03700	this essay is deliberate.