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There's one simple instinct acting on the majority of life, the desire for control. Synonyms include integrity, security, territory. It's about having room to feed and separate from threats. The beaver dam is just one strategy to achieve safety from predators. Controlling the future, winter and beyond, is also important. Humans extend control into much more distant abstractions, but the motive is always the same. The desire for control leads to accumulation of powers, eventually it may demand the world unite to control impossibly great things.
Then there's the more specialized instincts that make up race and heredity. Humanity has refined instinct to solve more esoteric problems. Very interesting subject.
