Devouring and Working
At the base level of consciousness a cell will seek to devour energy and perform its tasks, kind of like human society and any society of any race of animal or magical, they take energy or resources and turn it into value through work.
So in a sense every level of society and civilisation functions on the actions of what a simple cell does, just the process becomes more complex with the elevation of scale and consciousness.
we’re all just complicated simple cells regardless of individual complexity so in a sense regardless of how you choose to transmute your energy, everything and everybody is just a simple cell with plugins.