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 Dinesh
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I take the view that ‘a person is a set of motivational processes that are integrated into a functional unity.’ The topic of motivation is highly complex and could easily take us far afield. Still, enough may be ventured here to bring minimal justification to the claim that the self is appropriately defined in terms of motives. The topic of motivation is complex precisely because it is inextricably bound up with the fundamental operation of the life process. If we inquire about the ultimate nature of motivation, we are asking about the driving force, the power, the verve that impels living beings toward purposeful action designed to maintain the essential processes of life. To find out bearings in these waters we may turn to two eminent biologists:

A closer approximation to what really happens in organic nature would be to describe it as follows: life is an eminently active enterprise aimed at acquiring both a fund of energy and a stock of knowledge, the possession of one being instrumental to the acquisition of the other. The immense effectiveness of these two feedback cycles, coupled in multiplying interaction, is the precondition, indeed the explanation, for the fact that life has the power to assert itself against the superior strength of the pitiless inorganic world.

Living systems . . .continue because they obtain materials and energy from their surroundings, enabling them to do the work of rearranging their parts so as to prevent them from falling into disorder. They are able to do this because they receive from their ancestors a pattern of order, which we identify by saying that it consists of ‘information’ carried by a code….

The order of [living things] is maintained by the continual expenditure of energy in elaborate ways that counteract tendencies to degradation and disorder … Enormous amounts of information are involved in the control of living organisms. An evolution has proceeded creatures depending on more and more information have appeared. ~ Page 129
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