Biospheres Trying to Expand

In ‘What is Biospheric Communion’ I ask you to imagine biospheres trying to expand. You might respond that biospheres don't try to do anything because they do not have a single mind but instead are made up of innumerable creatures many of which have minds and many of which do not.

Given that I say, on my home page that the source of meaning for my life would have to be real not mythical, I would not accept any of the more mythical versions of Gaia theory to explain how a biosphere might try to expand. Most of those innumerable creatures have emotions and desires. By desire, I mean simply motive to act. Each snake wants to slither past the next rock. Each moth wants to fly toward the Moon. Each polar bear wonders if there might be juicier seals in the next patch of sea ice. There are uncountable organisms that make up the biosphere and many of their individual desires cancel out. But among their uncountable desires are many that do not cancel and I believe that the ones that do not cancel out add up to something net. It is a net desire to expand.