By consciousness, I meant the common understanding of what exactly separates humans from animals, to clarify.
That is still too vague to be of any value for the discussion.
That being said, if you assert that everything we do in the long run is purely for the purposes of eliminating threats and reproducing, then there's still the issue of the many people who choose to pursue higher means of self fulfillment than these. Sitting on forums talking philosophically isn't going to get any of us laid, nor is it going to help us live better. That being said, the act of exercizing mental capability, purely for its own sake, is something that isn't explained by libido and mortido, and happens to be very similar to all of the activities in which humans partake after their sexual and safety oriented needs have been satisfied.
Why do you continiue to make a similar argument to your first one without considering what I said in my post? I clearly said that libido and mortido are the basis of everything, not the exact representations (in most cases... well, you understand what are the exceptions) of desire to have sex and safety. You give examples of mental development as something that cannot be explained by libido/mortido, yet I do not see that you understood what I meant at all. Still, I will answer the question: mental development is an expression of libido - getting better and caring about yourself in one way or another are all derivatives of libido. And also, there are things like scenarios/games that dictate long-term, important behavior; there are constructive and destructive games/scenarios, therefore they still can be described by libido/mortido impulses. Not everything in psychology is so obvious.
Essentially, if you attribute every human action to the ultimate pursuit of sex and safety, you have no means of explaining what we deem to be self-actualization, emotional intimacy, and the pursuit of art for its own sake.
Refer to the above - you again failed to understand my point. Libido and mortido are energies made to do 'good' and 'bad' (as society labels them), we just inherited them from animals that had them as the basic desire to reproduce and be safe; these energies have many derivatives that are not as obvious as having sex or running away from danger. I've simplified this as much as I could, please double-check that you understand the concept that I'm trying to depict here before replying, because you just reiterated what you've said in your first post basically, forcing me to explain this again.
The essential idea is that humanity stems from those things that we have that animals don't have, yet we find that we can't pursue those things without meeting the more animalistic requirements. By classifying the general goal of all human activity as being libido and mortido, you forget that those are only two lower tiers of the heirarchy, which I would argue can be satisfied, leaving room for other motivations.
Again, it may not be obvious from first sight how many of the highest tier needs correspond to libido and mortido, but I believe it is the case. I will use the wikipedia article and briefly go over all tier 5 needs:
Morality. Comes from super-ego, the thing that makes (some) children think twice before crossing the road in the wrong place. In this context, I see the purpose of morality as an advanced mechansm of integration between individual and society. It is a desire to live in a society where you can trust others, possibly strangers, thus making it more safe. I would rather live in a city where if I forget my keys somewhere, almost everyone who finds them returns them to me as opposed to robbing my house.
Creativity. A desire to create something new. This quite obviously connects with libido.
Spontaneity. You may find this under several names, the most common one is probably 'it', which is a force of subliminal desires that is very spontaneous and impulsive in nature; it is the most basic way of expressing libido or mortido in itself. Children, before developing sophisticated behavior patterns, have a stronger 'it', which is why they are so spontaneous: a child may break something without thinking. *I remember a very interesting chapter in one of Bern's books where he discusses how sucking the mothers nipple is the only real way to express libido and mortido during the first vew months of our lives; biting and being rough with it is obviously the mortido part
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Lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts and problem solving. These ones seem to be directly connected to intellect; I would generalize them as the ability and desire to process information effectively. Not sure whether there is a sonnection to libido/mortido here, but my assumption is that more effective ways of dealing with information is the key to living better lives: it helps both in the financial department and helps please other tier 5 needs such as creativity and morality (where would those be without intellect?!).
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Anyway, this was quite a long post, and I think we're straying off-topic with this discussion. If you still want to talk about any of this, PM me. I really don't think we should use up so much of this topic on a tiny and barely related aspect of it.
And I re-reiterate: some things based on this libido/mortido principle are not as obvious as others. This does not make us 'primitive animals', this just makes us a different kind of animal. I do not find anything insulting in that.
None.