Imagine a group of people coming together randomly. No rules, no expectations, no societal mores, just strangers who happen to congregate without benefit of foresight. One of them suggests forming a community. The others agree.
Before long a person is chosen as a leader, and he or she is the moderator of a discussion about the manner in which the community will regulate itself so that a practical equality is guaranteed to all.
We now have order. We have laws. So long as the community members obey the rules we will have a certain peaceful efficiency. Humans have a critical need for an order that allows them to be productive and to pursue goals. If things become disordered, we are less productive and ultimately less happy. If anarchy destroys the cohesion of the community, then we are right back where we started from.
The chaos of non-order.
In the beginning, before the community rules were set, there were a number of ideas, of concepts, being floated and debated. This was a sort of hodgepodge environment where one idea leads to another, a collage of concepts all inter-related through progressive influence, until finally the basic needs were recognized and acted upon.
Once things are set up, we don't want them falling down. We need a certain predictability so that we can plan ahead and be assured that what we have started will be allowed to continue. Productivity requires stability. Our needs must be met in a manner consistent with the laws, or things begin to crack and fall apart.
We abhor chaos.Things can be adjusted to fit in better with new, accepted ideas, but we don't want a thing to become something else. If we need a "something else," we will create it, and what we no longer have any use for will be mothballed or left to rot. But we do not want a thing itself to change, because if anything could, of itself, change, then there could be no sense of stability or of order.
We have law enforcement that is intended to prevent the violation of laws. Sometimes this fails. We then identify the offender and put a stop to the violations.
Every cell in every creature is made to perform a particular function and to fight against any violations of its encoded nature. Sometimes violations occur, in the form of abnormalities and mutations. This is chaos, a breakdown of the rules; that is to say, the order that generates the entity has been damaged, and if the damage isn't corrected, the entity will die. If the order of a culture is damaged and not corrected, that culture will collapse.
Anything showing efficient progression can be said to be orderly; that it's obeying a set of laws. For chaos to become a set of laws and thus rendered orderly, conceived concepts must become actual. Once actual, they can not become something else. Concept A begets Concept B, and B begets C, and so on. All these individual concepts will remain forever. "A" will never become "B". Once you think of something, that something exists in its own right. You can ignore it. You can think of similar, better things, but you can not change "A" into anything else. The "else" is its own concept. "A" may have suggested this something else, but it can not become what it is not. Thoughts are a progression of concepts. At the end of the day you're not left with just one concept. You may have chosen one for a prescribed purpose, but all the others are still around.
We see in life-forms the simplest to the most complex. We see evidence of life-forms that no longer exist in the actual state. What we don't see, except in our imagination, is evidence that "A" evolved into "B."
Evolution is a conceptual process where one idea suggests another. But once an idea's conceptual existence becomes critical, it gains material substance until its intended mass is actual, and at that point it is no longer a step in the ladder of evolutionary ideas. Now it is actual. It has found its place in the real world. It will express its nature forever, or until the need for its actual existence becomes less than critical.
What determines critical need? That which conceived the concept in the first place. Since Anthropic consciousness is the only thing that we know to be instrumental in generating reality, then it's a safe bet to say that the source of all things is a mind very like our own, if not exactly like our own.
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