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Imperatives
Each Focus has its own specialist job to do. I am aware of certain themes that play out in my own motivations that I suggest are intrinsic, genetically-supported, and different to compulsions and emotions.
Examples of imperatives include:
An assumption that it is best to 'get on' with others.
A desire to 'belong' to our society in some meaningful way.
An insistence to 'get things right'.
A tendency to play.
A drive to explore.
A wish to leave a legacy.
Imperatives seem to work in a similar way to cognitive guiding beliefs; they guide our behaviour though they are not readily recognised through our conscious thinking, which may imply that they are pre-verbal.
I believe that these Imperatives will be expressed differently in each of us, both in magnitude and interpretation, and that they will vary from situation to situation.
Imperatives can also be interpreted as the equivalent of algorithms that drive our motivations and priorities. Our Focuses are pre-programmed to give us human instincts, which drive what some people recognise as human nature and perhaps what some might call inherent value-systems.
Notice that even the Core Consciousness has Imperatives, which gives one hint that we can now begin to theorise about Core Consciousness itself, which I discuss elsewhere.
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