(F.1) The central question of any
philosophy must be one that asks what motivates unus to
behave as unus do. Why do the behaviors of
individuals within any specific society of people vary so widely? Why do
the group behaviors of different societies of vary
so widely between each other? Why do some people hold certain beliefs
to be true while others hold the same beliefs
to false? Why do some hold there to be a universal
of set of truths? Why do not all people hold the same morals and
the virtue of those morals? Why do different
people experience different emotions to the
same actions to which they are exposed? Why do different
people take different actions in response to the
same human actions to which they are exposed? Why do
two unus have different motivations after
experiencing the action in their environment?
What motivates one unus to be a ballerina dancer and another
to be a rocket scientist?
Indeed, do not both unus have
the same physical attributes Do not both have the
same sensors for touch, smell, taste, sight, smell and sound? Do
not both have brains made of the same material and
the same material configuration? Do they not possess
the same appendages and organs arranged in the same configuration? Is not
the biochemistry of their bodies, including the brain, exactly
the same? How is it that two humans composed of the same material and
configured in the same fashion can respond so differently in
response to the same environment when two rocks of the same material and
configured in the same fashion will behave in exactly the same way in response
to the same environment?
So what is the primary difference between a rock and us
humans? The answer is physiology. Unlike the rock, we are living
organisms capable of reproducing ourselves and evolving to not only preserve
the species but add more and more functionality with each generation. The
laws of nature are responsible for the probabilistic
creation of the chemical processes of life. Evolution is
responsible for the creation of the 8.7 million different species of life forms
on earth. And survival of the species is nature's underlying motivation
for the actions of all 8.7 million species , including
those of us our human actions. Thus, coming full
circle, the reason for the motivation for survival of the species
is that the laws of nature dictate that the physical entity
of the living species cannot do otherwise. The species must live to reproduce
and reproduce to live. Nature dictates that anything that promotes survivability
of the species is good and anything that diminishes survivability
is bad. And so arises the motivation for all human
behavior with the laws of nature in full control.
So have great is the motivation for humans to propagate the
species? About 10% of the women over the age of 50 are childless in the US which is
roughly equivalent to the infertility rate. And, yes, infertility is present in
other animals as well. But no species of animal lacks the biological motivation
to enable the survival of the species by means of biological reproduce
that is inherent in the genetics of all living things and not a phenomenon
of the mind.
So what human actions does this innate motivation prompt?
First and foremost is to provide protection of the life of all livings members
of the species from death by protecting it against threats from the environment.
Second is to provide nourishment and care for the progeny until they can reach the age of sexual maturity and can
themselves propagate their species. That involves the acquisition and
possession of the material
needs for food,
shelter, and defense against theft by others.
Perhaps the best example of these dual motivations is a
colony of bees. For purposes of reproduction, a female bee is selected as the
queen and nurtured to have fully developed reproductive organs. She
will become impregnated by leaving the hive and flying through the air to mate
with male bees of a separate colony. The male bee has then completed it
sole purpose for existence and, no longer being of benefit to the colony, dies immediately
after mating. The impregnated queen returns to the colony and lays her fertile
eggs to be hatched into new bees. And so it is that the biological
imperative for reproduction has been fulfilled.
The female bees serves the biological imperative for
sustenance of life by providing food, shelter, and defense for the entire
hive. They gather material for creating wax in wax gland to fabricate the
honeycomb structure for storing honey, gather material for fabricating the thin
material used to build a protective wall around the perimeter of the hive,
gather nectar and pollen for outside the hive for use as food, produce royal
jelly which prompts full development of ovaries in the queen, cools the hives
by the evaporation of water by fanning their wings, clean the honeycomb cells
and seal the full ones, and provide a defense against intruders at the entrance
to the hive.
And all this, including a sign language for giving
directions to a source of nectar, is accomplished with a brain the
size of a sesame seed. And, further, humans with our large brains,
share about half our DNA with the bee.
The bee also demonstrates a second motivation
for the behavior of living things. The
development of an ordered society to benefit survival of the
species by collectively protecting the lives of its individual
members. The bee is an extreme example of this motivation but similar
social groups are widespread among among
other animals, including us humans. Crows live in flocks;
wolves and feral dogs in packs; gorillas in troops; and humans in wide
variety social groups ranging from individual families to political entities
with as many as 1.5 billion people. These groups, regardless of size or common
purpose, we shall call societies.
This philosophy holds that the ;motivation for
all human actions are the biological imperatives
of reproduction and living to reproduce. The cause of the motivation
itself is the existence of the physical entity of
the living things following the invariant laws of nature which,
in the case of living things takes
the form of a closed loop of chemical processes which serves the purpose
of sustaining the life of the species.
the phenomenon of emotions that arise in the brain and
present in the mind from the experience of exposure
to the environment of each unus. in
time past, either through direct observation with our senses of
the environment or indirectly through knowledge acquired from other
unus by means of the various means of communication. No emotion
can be created without cause and effect.
(F.2) We pass through life without giving much thought to
what the motivation for our actions might be. We
don't ask ourselves why most people in their childbearing years decide that
it is time to have children. But we often pause to ask what the purpose of
our lives might be. We tell ourselves that life must have purpose to
have meaning.
In a poll asking Americans to describe in their own words
what makes their lives feel meaningful, fulfilling or satisfying, the
overwhelming answer given by 79% of all respondents was "family". The
motivation for fulfilling the biological imperative of
reproduction provoked a response to descriptors of
subjective emotions but not to the underlying cause of the emotions.
The valuation of the emotions evoked by
"family" decided their response to the question
which was rooted in the biological motivation for fulfilling the biological
imperatives. We are the slaves of our emotions.
(F) The motivation for actions of all living things is to serve the biological imperatives of living to reproduce and reproducing to sustain existence of the species. The cause of this innate motivation is the circular chemical process of living and reproducing as dictated by the laws of nature. Sensate living things experience this motivation only through the phenomenon of subjective emotions.