What is man's desire for survival?

Literally: Have a strong desire to live.

People's desire for survival is an innate nature, to some extent, to get rid of the insecurity caused by life threats. Like a cliff under your feet, you will instinctively grab the rope to save your life and climb up.

Since ancient times, human beings have only passively adapted to nature, and then learned to make tools and actively adapt.

When a person feels the threat of death, he will often do a lot of things that he can't do at ordinary times because of his strong desire to survive, and stimulate his strong potential, thus promoting the progress of the times and the development of science and technology.

To say the least, a person (or any creature) will die if he has no desire to survive. Dead creatures were wiped out.

The creatures in our world have developed for thousands of years, and the ones that should be eliminated have already been eliminated. The rest must have the desire to survive, otherwise they will eventually be eliminated.

Extended data:

The desire for survival is also a physiological need in Maslow's theory. Maslow's theory divides needs into five categories: physiological needs, security needs, love and belonging, respect and self-realization.

Arranged from low to high. After self-realization of needs, there is self-transcendence of needs, but it is usually not regarded as a necessary level in Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory.

Most people will integrate self-transcendence into the needs of self-realization. ?

Popular understanding: If a person lacks food, safety, love and respect at the same time, then the demand for food is usually the strongest, and other needs are not so important.

At this time, people's consciousness is almost completely occupied by hunger, and all their energy is used to get food. In this extreme situation, the whole meaning of life is to eat, and nothing else is important.

Only by liberating people from the control of physiological needs can we have more advanced and socialized needs, such as security needs.

If any of these needs (except sex) are not met, people's physiological functions will not function normally. In other words, people's lives will be threatened.

In this sense, physiological needs are the primary driving force to promote human action.

Maslow believes that only when these basic needs are satisfied to the extent necessary for survival can other needs become new incentive factors, and at this time these relatively satisfied needs no longer become incentive factors.