Introduction
Life is restrained by Death.
Life is about avoiding death, and thus remaining even more profoundly restrained by it.
Life is action, and the base of action, Actiune Baza, is apex existentialism, the pursuit of being the is, was, and always will be.
So many great philosophies and religions are built on an assumption of what humans should be, with hardly any of them asking this question, why do humans act? This is what I hope to do, ask the question, why do humans act?
So long as we’re going to build human zoos, we should at least ask the question, why do humans act, to build habitats that allow humans to be what they are, not what others believe they should be. To that end, I have developed this general notion, so far, of the answer to the question, why do humans act. It’s in pursuit of the apex existential, without which humans would not act all, and life without action is death.
The Start of Action
The first mover of action is the perception of the self within the non-self in potential apex existentiality, the pursuit of becoming and being the height of existential excellence across the three frames of existentiality, the ideational, the genetic (socio-cultural and more), and the physiological.
This is the Actiune Baze, base of action, the self’s perception of the apex existential within compelling it to action through the mind-body biofeedback network.
Power as the Creator and Consequence of Action
The self is born into a range of potential apex existentialities that is altered as the self perceives interaction with non-selfness. The perception of power is the fundamental editor of the self’s apex existential adjustments.
Power is the perceived ability to influence action and the perceived consequence of the exchange of action. There are three types of power, coercive, co-operative (indirect coercive, offers slightly more choices), and consensual (win-win action exchange). Each type of power can operate within any of the three frames of existentiality, the ideational, the genetic, and the physiological.
Vehicles of Power
Humans build patterns of action regulation through vehicles of power, such as religions and political ideologies.
The self is born into pre-existing vehicles of power that become part of its perception of non-selfness, potentially threatening its apex existentiality or giving it opportunity to enter into the narratives that the self perceives will give it opportunity to build non-self affirmation of its apex existentiality.
Perception is Memory, Life is Memory
The self perceives quantumly (perception of all points at once in non-verbal sense), observationally (point by point perception that can be translated to a verbal language), and heuristically (acting without observational or quantum presuppositioning) its self in interaction with the non-self.
Perception is memory, there is no present. Perception is the prehension of memories of the past and portending memories of the potential futures. Memory cannot be sustained that does not prehend the past and portend the future, though memory can be lost even when it contains both potentials within it.
Life is Memory. Life is a competition for memory that affirms the is, was, and always will be of apex existentiality the self is calibrated to perceive it is.
The Mind-Body Biofeedback Network
The Self is calibrated by the mind-body biofeedback network. The mind is not limited to the brain, but rather it exists throughout the body, and the line between mind and body may often be blurred. The self perceives, successfully builds a memory and preserves it, an event that affirms the apex existential within, and the mind-body send signals to the self, quantumly, observationally, and heuristically.
These signals are most often described as feelings, from love to determination, from fear to enthusiasm. These feelings, biofeedback signals, reinforce or discourage the perceptions we hold.
Will to Perception versus Reality of Power
Where the will to perceive cannot overcome the reality of power, the is that is, though it be beyond our exacting understanding, the self begins to modify its apex existential within.
As the self perceives limitation or liberty, being bound or unbound in their apex existential pursuits, the self modifies the apex existential parameters, following a multiplicity of potential apex existential paths. This is done to allow the self to build memories that the mind-body can reward the self for having.
Direct v Vicarious
The first division in pursuit of the apex existential is in the direct or vicarious pursuit of apex existentiality. As the self loses heuristic hope of attaining an apex existentiality, the self is offered the option of becoming a supporter of some other that is able to pursue the apex existentiality the self cannot.
(Note: It is my current theory that changes to the perception of power and apex existentiality can only occur if they become part of the self’s heuristic assumptions, the unobservable part of the self.)
Most of us choose the vicarious path when dealing with the most potential apex existential of all of creation, such as being a living god walking the lands in real time, or being the heavyweight champion of the world in boxing.
Whether your apex existential pursuit is vicarious or direct, these next two divisions apply to both.
Certainty versus Uncertainty
Certainty is the default for all apex existential pursuits. As the self perceives limitation at the heuristic level, the self might choose to modify their pursuit by developing a pursuit of knowing that is never to be fulfilled, that must allow for uncertainty to be present in almost every thought taken captive.
Fulfilled versus Unfulfillabe
The notion of pursuit without expected fruition is the underlying assumption that also leads to the next division, the fulfillment of the pursuit versus the pursuit of the unfulfillable, fulfilment versus unfulfillment.
The Consensual Path
The self that becomes led, whether it be directly or vicariously, by the unfillable in terms of knowing with certainty and completing the apex existentiality in the here or now, becomes consensually anchored in how they utilize their own personal power.
The Coercive Path
The self that becomes led, whether it be directly or vicariously, by the fulfillable in terms of knowing with certainty and completing the existentiality in the here and now, becomes coercively anchored in how they utilize their own personal power.
The former needs no threat of harm to be internally compelled to act consensually, while the latter merely needs to perceive they will suffer no immediate consequence either because they won’t get caught or their power advantage over the other allows them to act with impunity.
How to become Consensually-Mind-Bodied –
The self that is aware of its own death, its own sins, its own need for others, will develop the apex existential pursuits that produce consensual exchange, not resting in certainty or hoping in final culmination. From this, consensual vehicles of power will emerge from the necessity of humans in pursuit of apex existentialities that make such vehicles of power necessary.
Life is restrained by death, but we need not fear it.
Life is hemmed in by uncertainty, but we need not be bound by it,
Life is constrained by the Unfulfillable, but we need not be devasted by it.
