The purpose of the colonial aggregation was to survive. To do this it had to have food, means of defense, protection and means of procreation. The control center which had developed had as its primary command, survive! Its prime purpose was the food, defense, protection and means of procreation.
Thus can be stated the second workable axiom:
The purpose of the mind is to solve problems relating to survival.
The ultimate success of the organism, its species or life would be, at its unimaginable extreme, immortality. The final failure in obedience to the law survive would be death. Between eternal survival and death lie innumerable gradations. In the middle ground of such a scale would be mere existence without hope of much success and without fear of failure. Below this point would lie, step by step, innumerable small errors, accidents, losses, each one of which would tend to abbreviate the chances of reaching the ultimate goal. Above this point would lie the small successes, appreciations and triumphs which would tend to secure the desirable goal.
As an axiom, the mind can then be said to act in obedience to a central basic command, survive, and to direct or manage the organism in its efforts to accomplish the ultimate goal for the individual or species or life, and to avoid for the individual or species or life any part of the final failure, which leads to the stated axiom:
The mind directs the organism, the species, its symbiotes or life in the effort of survival.
A study of the field of evolution will indicate that survival has been, will be and is the sole test of an organism, whether the organism is treated in the form of a daily activity or the life of the species. No action of the organism will be found to lie without the field of survival, for the organism is acting within its environment upon information received or retained, and error or failure does not alter the fact that its basic impulse was motivated by survival.
(Graph of Logic Simplified for Illustration)
Another axiom may then be formulated as follows:
The mind as the central direction system of the body, poses, perceives and resolves problems of survival and directs or fails to direct their execution.
As there are many organisms in the same species, all attempting to accomplish the same end, and as there are many species, and as matter itself is attempting in one unit form or another to survive, there is necessarily conflict and contest amongst the individuals of the species, species or units of matter. Species cannot survive without being interested primarily in the species. Natural selection and other causes have established this as a primary rule for survival: That the unit remain alive as long as possible as a unit and, by association and procreation, that the species remain alive as a species. Second-grade interest is paid by the unit or the species to its symbiotes. Third-grade interest is paid to inanimate matter. As this is apparently the most workable solution, natural selection best preserves those species which follow this working rule. And the symbiotes of the successful species therefore have enhanced opportunity for survival.
