That's what keeps LLMs from being self-sufficient it seems. Life has this peculiar ability to always keep basic necessities at the center, and always default to

That's what keeps LLMs from being self-sufficient it seems. Life has this peculiar ability to always keep basic necessities at the center, and always default to them, so the loop can keep going: 1. Try your hardest not to die. 2. Try your hardest to reproduce. 3. Try to thrive maybe also while at it, but DON'T FORGET 1 AND 2! This is why humans are this weird combination of instinct and reasoning that we find hard to control. The limbic system is very basic, but very strong and very stable. The primary loop. Everything else allows us to go farther, but when we fail we go back to relying on the limbic system. If we allowed reason to take over instinct, we'd likely end ourselves. Not that we can't end ourselves by also relying on instinct but essentially the strategy there is: sacrifice the intelligent shell and let the basic loop continue so we can rebuild the intelligent shell in a new, more stable and suited for the environment form.