²⁵Actually, the theory in the previous chapters does not exactly lead to such meta-level insatiability. We saw in Chapter 5 how predictions are constantly updated, thus leading to insatiability. However, self-needs are not necessarily concerned with predictions but expectations of a different kind, as discussed in footnote 14 in Chapter 6. Still, it is possible that the expectations computed by the self-need systems are also updated based on past rewards, leading to meta-level insatiability.