Anthropomorphism is rampant in the professional biological community. Giving animals (and plants!) thinking human characteristics tends to place too much complexity into nature's operating process. Cause and effect in chemistry is simple - events are governed by their physical proximity to reactive change.
Energy both flows downhill and is conserved – so that when an event occurs, all the energy released has to end up somewhere. Various biological entities store this energy by promoting electrons to higher electronic orbital states, then harvest this energy on demand by attaining a threshold level.
So energy storage is cumulative, resulting in the transfer of energy to a readily accessible cascade of intermediate energy accumulators each time the threshold is reached. Bonds vibrate continuously as the energy absorbed rattles around trying to get to critical mass to begin the cascade.
Change happens when typical energy pathways are blocked – forcing the energy to be stored longer, until a novel threshold is attained and energy is released in a different direction. Current models of living systems do not allow for prediction of this direction (Heisenberg Principle).
As paradigms change – the vision of how to solve the current problem can never be found from within the mindset from which the problem was generated. Perspective requires reevaluating the base assumptions, from time to time.
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