Vimal Airjdath: Living Matter

What are the essential ingredients for life?
Energy + Water H2O + Chemical Raw Material = Life
Ingredients for Life
1. Liquid Water - Required by all known forms of life.
2. Chemical building blocks such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen
3. An energy source - All chemical reactions need an energy source to drive them.

For life to evolve all simple and all major elements have to combine to form a complex one.

What are the minimum necessities for comfort?
Human needs and comfort!
These essentials go beyond just food, water, and shelter. They include both physical and non-physical elements needed for human growth and development, as well as all those things humans are been present since birth. Human needs are a powerful source of explanation of human behavior and social interaction
Examples of Human needs
• Safety/Security -- the need for structure, predictability, stability, and freedom from fear and anxiety.
• Belongingness/Love -- the need to be accepted by others and to have strong personal ties with one's family, friends, and identity groups.
• Self-esteem -- the need to be recognized by oneself and others as strong.
• Personal fulfillment -- the need to reach one's potential in all areas of life.
• Identity -- goes beyond a psychological. Identity becomes a problem when one's identity is not recognized as legitimate, or when it is considered inferior or is threatened by others with different identifications.
• Cultural security -- related to identity, the need for recognition of one's language, traditions, religion, cultural values, ideas, and concepts.
• Freedom -- the condition of having no physical, political, or civil restraints; having the capacity to exercise choice in all aspects of one's life.
• Distributive justice -- the need for the fair allocation of resources among all members of a community.
• Participation -- the need to be able to actively partake in and influence civil society.

Human desires play the same essential role in human beings they do in all creatures. They are the motivators of behavior. Desires are not something humans are born with, it is something someone has chosen to obtain or accomplish.
For example: desire to watch television, play sports, have a job, buy products, or listen to music.