Function follows form, thus the drive for purposeful existence began when Matter separated from formless Batter. Matter was still attached by an interface to draw more substance into reality like the umbilical cord sustains an embryo. Matter was an infinitesimal speck in an infinite sea of Batter.
Macrocosm reflects microcosm, what happens at the largest levels mirrors even the smallest levels thus one Matter became two which became four which became eight, converting Batter into Matter. We now know this first substance of the Mattersphere as Hydrogen, the simplest of elements.
The eight differentiated and became two groups of distinct types of Matter, Hydrogen and Helium. Hydrogen one, Helium two. Each again became more of their like type, Hydrogen could only make more singles, while Helium created more pairs. When their number became eight again, instead of becoming four, the extra set of Hydrogen bonded with the extra set of Helium and Lithium, three, was created thus there were now three types of Matter. And so this process of creation by twos and eights continued until all the elements as we know them were formed.
This is Synergy 