I've heard of 3 hypothesized "basic drives" for living things: seek pleasure, avoid pain, minimize energy. I don't know that any of them is based on anything more solid than Freud-level hand-waving, but I think there's a fourth one: regulate uncertainty.
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Boyd as Nietszchean Superman
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Can you point me to a specific statement of the principle in Bateson or Beer? I'm not familiar with that lit beyond Wikipedia level gloss
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