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I think I know which way Life flows:

As soon as it survives it wants to play.

That seems to be the vector of all consciousness, the flow of all well-being:

Phase I, Survival: from Pain to Status Quo.

Phase II, Self-Actualization: from Status Quo to Pleasure/Meaning*.

What’s Phase III?

Not counting the difference between Phase I and Phase II

*Pleasure = Meaning (pleasure = body-meaning; meaning = mind pleasure)