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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hmm it's a fair point but in Beer it's so embedded I'm not sure. I'm fond of this from Barry Clemson, 1984 (Cybernetics: A New Management Tool) - Barry was one of Stafford's studentspic.twitter.com/w0l680hGT3
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(this little para is pretty mega if you ask me, and is all about organisational homeostasis, which is what you're talking about)
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