need

doctrine of needs

biscuit

British cuisine

is for the one who experiences it, an irreducible and thereby absolute system of reference.

From the biological and psychological point of view, a sense is an appreciation of values in rela tion to a need. And for the one who experiences and lives it, a need is an irreducible, and thereby absolute, system of reference. (Canguilhem 'knowledge of life' : 119)

is that without which production does not occur, but consumption reproduces it.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need. Karl Marx

is the manner in which this future appears, as the organic form of expectation. The retained past appears in the form of cellular heredity.

Organic expectation, which emerges from a delayed recognition, makes us attentive to duration. The organism's past, in the form of neuronal traces, shapes our sense of duration. Deleuze tells us that ''need is the manner in which this future appears, as the organic form of expectation. The retained past appears in the form of cellular heredity'' (DR 73). This ''cellular heredity,' or trace, remains unconscious and passive, although our feeling of expectation, which emerges from it, may be active. For example, when we hear the ''tick-tock'' of a clock, we do not actively try to recall instances when we heard a clock... instead, we involuntarily hear the two elements of ''tick'' and ''tock'' as a case. We spon'laneous/y expect them to follow each other because the brain's facilitations automatically contract them. In this way, our whole life pursues a contraction of habits.

is the subjective intermediary between the living and the milieu. It is via the intermediary of need that the milieu dominates and compels the evolution of living beings. Changes in circumstances lead to changes in needs... changes in needs lead to changes in actions.

In his r 809 Zoological Philosophy, Lamarck writes that if by action of cir cumstances or milieus one takes him to mean direct action by the exterior milieu on the living, one is putting words into his mouth It is via the intermediary of need, a subjective notion implying reference to a positive pole of vital values, that the milieu dominates and compels the evolution of living beings. Changes in circumstances lead to changes in needs... changes in needs lead to changes in actions. If these actions are long-lasting, the use or nonuse of certain organs causes the organs to develop or atrophy, and these morphological acquisitions or losses, obtained by individual habit, are preserved by the mechanism of heredity, on condition that the new mor phological characteristic is common to both parents.

is an illusion. Most of the things man “needs” are not necessary to him.

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