Human Survival Depends on Social Intelligence

The human organism is a social organism which depends for survival and adaptation on social intelligence. Human adaptability is successful if it is based on the value-life. As a social organism, the human organism has a complex range of instinctive human motives or 'human needs'. These must be fulfilled for proper growth and development to full human awareness or 'humanness' and the peaceful functioning of human societies. Human needs are psychological and spiritual as well as physiological. The physiological needs are those needs which are related to physical growth. Psychological needs are those needs related to psychological growth. There are the basic or 'lower' psychological needs for security and the 'higher' psychological needs for moral consciousness or 'conscience'. The different psychological needs are all interrelated. The 'lower' basic needs are the so-called 'security needs' for safety, belongingness and self-esteem also known as the 'ego needs'. The 'higher' needs are the so-called 'growth needs' or 'spiritual needs'... needs for development of rational conscience through spiritual growth and transcendance of the ego...  'ego-transcendance'. The most urgent or 'prepotent' is the need for freedom from fear and anxiety.... the need for safety or 'security'. Security needs include the need to admire an ideal and to strive for perfection. Security is communicated through loving care and a sense of 'belongingness'...  need for human solidarity which communicates security... parental love without conditions attached... 'unconditional love' or 'spiritual love'. Unconditional love is derived from the human instinct for human solidarity and communicates the security, approval, respect, esteem and sense of belongingness... basic to faith in the persistence of the self, respect and approval of one's identity and expectations of oneself i.e. 'self-respect' or 'self-esteem'. Fulfillment of the ego needs establishes a natural condition of self-identity or 'healthy ego' which is required for normal healthy psychological growth...  mature growth or 'self-actualisation'.  The process of self-actualisation leads to intuitive intelligence or 'social intelligence' as a function of fully expanded awareness of the social values of humanness ... truth, justic, beauty, compassion... which are instrumental in creative and effective adaptation to changing social conditions.