Neither humans nor states are aggressive by nature

A misunderstanding has occurred concerning human nature (and, in turn, the nature of states). This is because (a) information in the analogue world is finite, (b) Beings can and will process information, and (c) humans specifically need to augment their information processing, that is, to keep processing new information. Neither humans nor states are aggressive by nature; nor is conflict natural to humans, in an (imagined) ‘state of nature’ or elsewhere. (On whether conflict is natural to humans, see §05.01.09.) On the contrary, humans, having no purpose but only needs, simply ceaselessly try to augment their information processing in order to serve these needs (and, thus, compare their processing to that of their predecessors and contemporaries, see §05.01.09, on comparison being natural to humans). It is as a result of this that conflict emerges in conditions of scarcity.

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