Chapter-2: Functions of Consciousness: Motivation and Fun
Outline of Article:
- The Third Interconnected Question of Consciousness
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The Third Interconnected Question of Consciousness:
Why does a writer’s 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 social 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. Even so, these fluctuations are very much dependent on a person’s free-will of choice to accept.
From an evolutionary perspective, social fluctuations of motivation do have a practical role. A person is objectively stronger and more fit to survive the chaos of the world if mutual motivations are aligned within a group.
For clarification, I am addressing two specific social questions here. First, what happens when a person is invigorated by the presence of a highly charismatic individual? And second, what happens when a person is drained of their willingness to act, when in the presence of a monotone, indecisive, high maintenance or negatively biased person?
At present, my interpretation that accounts for these fluctuations in motivation are evolution based. Meaning 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 of additional motivation is still free-will dependent, across all events in life.
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.
To better understand what is being stated here, it is best to use some symbolic representation to clarify the ideas. Therefore, let MT = the total motivation for a given person, M0 = the initial or prime motivation term from a given person and CdMd = any additional values of motivation from willing participants, where d is an integer. Then the total motivation for a given person is approximately:
MT = . . . + C-3M-3 + C-2M-2 + C-1M-1 + M0 + C1M1 + C2M2 + C3M3 + . . .(Equation 1.1)
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 major source of supplemental motivation for early life span development.
Caution, motivated writer, Equation 1.1 suggests that for maximal life development, both biological parents are needed, especially in the early stages of life. 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 and/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, M0 . 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 or quality of motivation.
The fourth comment that needs to be made is with the “ ” on both ends of the right-hand side of Equation 1.1. These symbols indicate that all human beings are able to contribute to all people’s total motivation, current or past. This 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, across time.
3. Why does a writer’s motivation fluctuate in the presence of others?
A writer’s motivation fluctuates in the presence, or awareness, of others because of an influential property of motivation that has developed through evolutionary needs. In symbolic form, letting MT = total motivation for a given person, M0 = the initial or prime motivation term of a given person and CdMd = to any additional values of motivation from willing participants, where d is an integer, then the total motivation for a given person is approximately:
MT = . . . + C-3M-3 + C-2M-2 + C-1M-1 + M0 + C1M1 + C2M2 + C3M3 + . . .
(Equation 1.1)
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