You're onto something when you link "wants" with "energies". Think back 4 billion years to some of the first lifeforms on earth, colonies of slime mould clingi

You're onto something when you link "wants" with "energies". Think back 4 billion years to some of the first lifeforms on earth, colonies of slime mould clinging to a rock in the ocean. The first behaviour of these organisms was to respond to the movement of the sun overhead. They'd orient themselves to regulate their exposure to the sun's rays, arranging themselves in a horizontal plane on top of the rock when the sun was overhead, and vertically along the side of the rock when the sun was at an angle. The first "desire" was the want of energy. The first behaviour was to move towards the sun. The first communication was the signal that was passed through the colony of cells to coordinate the movement of the whole community into a mutually beneficial configuration. The first conflict was when the colony became large enough and so diversely distributed that a part of the community "decided" it would rather not obey the signal to move and instead would move to its own preferred surface of the rock.