Sure, the mind may be "hard-wired" to experience motivation. In fact, without motivation and motives, we'd be motionless and utterly apathetic. No mammal can survive that way.

But there are an endless number of motives and motivations. Some are beneficial to others, some neutral, some destructive, some very mixed. No particular motive or motivation is hard-wired into the species; in other words, inevitable and insuperable for everybody.

People starve themselves in hunger strikes, and kill themselves in other ways, including, as Amos points out, for altruistic purposes,so (evidently unlike most other creatures not in the act of protecting their young) humans are not even hard-wired for individual physical survival.

Certainly most of us are strongly inclined in that direction, but talk about hard-wired or genetically encoded thought and behavior (beyond the mere ability to think and behave at all) just muddies the waters.