The brain constantly shifts contextualized goals based on sensory input and semantic factors of meaningfulness, certainty, and agency, with affect management policies describing how individuals pursue or relinquish goals across situations.
Meaningfulness determines how strongly affect attaches to goals, shaping motivation and willingness to endure discomfort to pursue or maintain those goals.
A space-derived virus fuses human minds into a blissful hive that erases individuality while driving expansion, yet allows deception by omission and social isolation.