Increasing importance of Instinct

Abstract: Everybody knows that if we miss "Now". That moment never comes back. Our world is "It is Now or Never". But the current Industrial Society which was brought forth by the Industrial Revolution is "Production-centric". And we have been pursuing product performance (better function with less cost). But as Maslow pointed out, human needs shift from material satisfaction to emotional satisfaction. We, humans, would like to "Actualize ourselves". In English, living things are called "Creatures", because we create movement to survive. "Movement" is indispensable for living. But in the case of four legged animals, they cannot move freely because their movement is restricted due to the fact that their body center of gravity remains the same position from the ground. But in old time, anthropoids jumped to trees and found out that if we get free from the earth's gravity, we can move as we wish. But we, humans, were wiser. Instead of jumping from tree to tree, humans chose to walk on two legs and turn the other two to arms. Thus, humans could develop arms to hands and became able to create movement as we wish. And this enables us to "Feel" movement within ourselves. Among vertibrate, only humans and apes can understand the mirror image is "Self", because we can "Feel" our movement inside of us. In the case of Invertibrate, only "Octopuses" can identify "Self" in the mirror image. Octopuses are incredible. They can escape even from a screwed container. Thus, they are known as "Expert of Escape". Further, they teach us to learn from failures. They do not repeat the same mistake and succeed in escaping. We have a lot to learn from octopuses. Their "Situational Awareness" is excellent. Well, let us come back to humans. We should remember that "Emotion" and "Motivation" come from the same Latin "Movere". In fact, "Emotion" means "e=ex Motion", i.e. to move out. We perceive the environment and situation and motived to establish our own world in the Real World. "DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion" is getting wide attention these days. As to Diversity and Equity, we can satisfy these needs with the Industrial Society. But as everybody knows, society shifts from one to another with time. And the current industrial society is getting close to its end and it is time to design and develop another society for the next generation. As the Industrial Society is getting close to its end, there are many issues emerging. The greatest problem is excessive consumption of energy. We are running out of energy. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is regarded as a potential solution, but we must remember AI consumes a lot of energy. Thus, it does not work. Then, how about Inclusion. This is promising. As Maslow pointed out, the final need of humans is to actualize "Self". We, humans, feel maximum happiness and the feeling of achievement when we do the job internally motivated and realize it in our own way. The current industry is "Technology-based". It is Science. But the maximum happiness and the feeling of achievement are obtained by "Engineering-way". We make efforts to make our dream come true. Humans can only dream about the future, because we developed a surprisingly flexible body mobility. However, tackling with "Now" is very challenging. Now changes every moment. In fact, the Real World changes continuously from moment to moment. Let us consider swimming. Water changes continuously. So we cannot apply mathematical approaches. We need to make the most of our own instinct. That is the only tool we have to challenge the new, unexperienced world. To cope with the dynamism, we can introduce Recurrent Neural Network, but it assigns weights between nodes automatically in a random way. So, it is a black box. But if we introduce Reservoir Computing, we can manipulate the output, so we can manage the system. But far greater advantage of introducing Reservoir Computing is it enables us to introduce micro technologies. So, we can make sensors and actuators extremely small, so that we can make them part of our body. It really works for human augmentation. Usually, sensors detect signals and actuators which can process these signals are mobilized. But micro technologies can make it possible to work them together at the same time. It is none other than Instinct. Thus, how we can utilize these additional Instincts is, in a way, "Inclusion". Even seniors can think about the future. They can work to make their dream come true. They can live for tomorrow. To achieve this goal, it is important to make the most of "Images". When we forgot someone's name, we can identify who it is by looking at images. The tool to support Instinct using Images is developed in this research. In short, it is deeply related to "Marketing". Marketing is to expand the market. In fact, expanding market is nothing other than expanding our world of "Self".

Keywords: Emotion, Diversity and Equity

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1006822

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