Mood and Species

A Mood is a self-contained, homogeneous condition, i. e. when one is in e. g. a happy mood, all of one is in it, no cause is necessarily ascribed to it, and it colors anything that one does.  Now, while a Mood is often attributed to an individual person, it can also apply to a collective e. g. "the mood in the room was somber".  In such a case, the mood of one is part of a more general condition that determines how each interacts with each other.  Similarly, the scope of a Mood can be the entire Species, with the interaction between Members a manifestation of not private motives, but of the general condition.  Thus, for example, Hobbesian universal antagonism can be not a clash of self-interests, but a general miasma.  Thus, Atomist Behaviorist concepts of the Psyche have no capacity to recognize a Mood of any scope, certainly not that of a collective, and not even that of an individual person, though it might endeavor to superimpose a cause on that condition.