Total Consciousness

Chapter-2: Motivation and Fun

Outline of Article:

• The Third Interconnected Question of Consciousness
• Thank you

The Third Interconnected Question of Consciousness:

Why does motivation fluctuate in the presence of others?

     To be clear, a person’s total motivation is 100% determined by their very own free-will of choice. However, it would be foolish to deny that outside influences have no bearing on choice of total motivation. In other words, depending on a person’s surroundings, a person’s motivation may change from one state to another, high to low or low to high—almost as if by some contagious influence. Still, these fluctuations are very much dependent on a person’s free-will of choice to accept.

     Upon closer inspection, what is actually happening when a person is invigorated by the presence of a highly charismatic individual? And, in an opposite manner, what is happening when a person is drained of motivation by the presence of a monotone, indecisive, high maintenance or negatively biased person?

     One interpretation that accounts for these fluctuations in motivation is that, each individual person is able to contribute a certain percentage of their motivation to others—in a positive or in a negative form. However, the receiving of these percentages is not forced upon others—acceptance is still free-will dependent.

     Another curious aspect of motivation is that proximity or current existence of others does not seem to be a strict requirement. Meaning that, in certain cases, only some level of residual awareness is needed in order for a person to gather additional percentage terms of motivation from others.

     However, in general, close proximity and frequency of proximity with others will have a much greater, and immediate, impact on a person’s total motivation. This is more apparent in early life span development; and may be less dominant with greater maturity in life.

     There are four comments that need to be stated with respect to equation 1.1. First, there will always be at least two infinite source sum-directions of motivation for any given person. These two sources will automatically be drawn from the biological father and biological mother of a given person. From an evolutionary perspective, this influential property of motivation—of giving and receiving additional motivational terms—serves as a critical source of supplemental motivation for early life span development.

     Caution, motivated reader, equation 1.1 suggests that for maximal life span development, both biological parents are needed, especially in early life span development. However, later in life, it may be possible that additional infinite branch summation directions may appear, in conjunction with the original two branch paths of sums. Or, that a reordering of sums from both directions may develop or branch off. At any rate, there are at least two source directions of motivation, for any given person, starting from the instantaneous moment of conception.

     The second comment is with the additional terms to the left and to the right of the initial main source term of motivation, . From the perspective of evolution, it stands to reason that any additional terms will first try to come from immediate family members of biological mother and father; and then any additional motivation terms will come from friends, associates and then from everyone else that is alive or within the reality of a given person.

     The third comment deals with the “C” values in front of the additional motivation terms “M”. These “C” values indicate percentage of influence (magnitude) and quality of motivation (ether positive or negative). However, these “C” values are not automatic. There is still a dependence on a person’s free-will to accept any quantity of motivation.

     The fourth comment that needs to be made is with the ellipsis (the horizontal three dots) on both ends of the right-hand side of equation 1.1. These symbols indicate that all human beings are able to contribute to any and all person’s total motivation, current or past. That is to say that, to a certain extent, there is some percentage of influence from all life in the world, and from all life in the universe.

     At this point, I am now able to provide an approximate solution to the third interconnected question of consciousness, with respect to motivation and fun.

Thank You

I appreciate your time in reading my blog post. Next Saturday I will upload the next part of Chapter-2: Motivation and Fun, from my unabridged book on metaphysics, Web of Consciousness: An Interconnected Life.