States, because they are Beings, need an individualisation and identification mechanism

However, the answer to whether archipelagos are natural to states cannot rely only on ad hoc problem-solving. After all, while need and opportunity may motivate humans, if no pattern emerges out of their combination, no specific need (in the form of an underlying idea) can be identified—only the one that has gone before it. In the case of states, because they are Beings, they need an individualisation and identification mechanism—all Beings have one. Humans have their states, animals their packs or herds (or their humans, as the case may be), organisations are individualised through regulation. This is a matter that ultimately relates to the Unique Human Observer Perspective, to the way in which we view and understand Beings. However, such a mechanism will not emerge until it is needed. In the case of states, it has now emerged, dragging states out of their ‘state of nature’ slumber. (In the case of artificial Beings, specifically computer programs, which have only recently come into existence, their ‘state of nature’ is perhaps only just beginning.)

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