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CØLLECTIVE MØTIVATION MANIFESTØ by Ø64

Like a bee to a hive or a wolf to a pack, there exist in nature infinite and infinitesimal examples of CØLLECTIVE MØTIVATION: one becomes many and many become one over and over and over again. We can begin with the smallest collective we can easily conceptualize, an atom (though smaller collectives certainly exist.) There exists inside of atoms magnetically charged particles, organized by their charge, which give an atom its shape, size, and properties; their motivation can be explained as just tiny amounts of magnetism, and yet the potential energy stored within (realized through either fusion or fission) is literally astronomical. The many becomes one and the energy stored within is more than any one individual could ever bear. To move upwards/outwards/onwards, we must complete this natural pattern and treat these collectives as individuals, a process we will repeat. For our purposes, we can abstract the complicated field of chemistry into an understanding that atoms bond together into substances and that these substances react to another, mixing and organizing themselves by chemical makeup. These chemical reactions can become self-sustaining systems: factories that perform the same reaction again and again and we can call these factories our second smallest collective: proteins. The motivation of a protein is very simple, just to bond with or digest the specific compounds that it is capable of incorporating. Upwards/outwards/onwards, we again treat the collective as singular and watch as the proteins become more and more complicated, and then work together to form more complicated systems and repeated actions. In the primordial soup, before the evolution of eyes or lungs or brains, proteins danced with each other for millions of years before they formed complicated, self sustaining systems that we now call organelles, the organs/pieces of a single cell. There is wide consensus among the scientific community that organelles used to be the highest form of life before they started to work together. One ate another and the “eater” became the cell wall, and the “eaten” became the mitochondria, Golgi apparatus, vacuole, etc, and together, after accumulating parts for some more millions of years, DNA chains were created to identify and reproduce the successful system: a single celled organism, our next collective. The many becomes one, and the information stored within is more than could be stored by any individual. The motivation of proteins, organelles, and single celled organisms can be described as material, a vehicle in need of fuel, and a factory in need of protection. And so again we get bigger, and regard a collective as singular. Single celled organisms reproduced just as they were for some more millions of years and eventually they formed specialties, using different fuel and fulfilling different purposes, and again they came together and formed a collective. Cells organize in our bodies by type and form tissues, groups of the same type of cells, and from tissues, organs with specifically purposed parts work together to make bodies/minds/people. In everyday life when you look at a multicellular organism, it must be regarded as one life form. To many, it must seem that we have reached the pinnacle collective of the physical world, a body housing a mind, again storing more energy and information than any single cell could bear, but again we must move upwards/outwards/onwards to the collective. The motivation of a person to form a larger body can be understood very similarly to the protein or the cell: a human has material needs and looks to a collective to help with the satisfaction of those needs, but what might that look like? With this pattern established one can live in harmony with these seemingly obvious instructions of the natural world simply by interacting with fellow human beings and participating in the same dance that was performed by those proto-beings in the primordial soup. Collide, collaborate, compete, and eventually, CØLLECTIVELY EVØLVE. And so your author submits the thesis: multicellular organisms capable of metacognition have only one purpose if the universal natural pattern of life is to be followed and satisfied: abstraction of personal needs through the creation and maintenance of a collective that stores more energy/information/power than a single mind ever could.