Maslow considered physical needs as the most basic. Obviously if a person is hungry or cold, they have no time for higher conceptual arguments, friendship or philosophy. Physical needs, or base needs also presuppose a stable, holistic foundation, and it is in this analogy that we wish to develop our concepts. [...]
The Story of Reason
We have the image of the left and right brains. We have the image of the logical hero. We have the separation of instinct and corpus callosum. How can any of that be true? Why then, do we insist on it? [...]