Chapter 05 — Need and opportunity • 05.01 — A need specific to humans, Paragraph 9.1 (§05.01.09.01)

Humans need to augment their information processing; augmentation, however, is always subjective and relative. It is subjective because humans have many (unsatisfiable) needs, each creating many purposes for information processing, and choosing (and prioritising) among them is subjective. In practice, some humans will strive for wealth, others for knowledge, others for experiences, others for relationships and so on. It is also subjective, in the sense that it is individually assessed. Each human needs to augment his or her own information processing, to process new information with regard to him- or herself, and with regard to the processing the individual has achieved so far in life. Not, that is, with regard to the information processed by others, who may well already have processed that same information. On the other hand, the augmentation of information processing is also relative, because humans need to keep increasing their information processing in the informational environment in which they happen to be at any given time, with the volume of information and the tools available (or even imaginable, see §25.00.00 on freedom) to them. This leads humans to compare their own information processing with the information processing of those around them.

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